Nature's Law

Why?  I asked, in awful awe
Knowing the death in Nature's law
Should you risk the spot you've won
To pull me up, toward bright day's sun out of the nothing - awful no
In which I've lain…
 
Before I heard his soft reply
He was pulled from his place and brought to lie,
Against the curb that had known my blood,
Tattered and marked, covered with mud
Seeming to be nothing - except the nothingness
…of men's disdain
 
I leaped once more toward the Sun
Higher than I'd ever done...
Remembering the eyes of the man who fell
Toward the rotten tone and dark alone Hell
I found nothing - except the nothingness of lonely pain .
 
Now, something beckoned me even more...
Than the highest leap ever known before,
 I needed to lift my brother below,
To see his eyes and have him know.
That the greatest good I'd ever known wasn't the highest leap above and alone
But his hand outstretched to lift me up
To give me place, to share his cup...

Why? I asked, in awful awe, knowing the death in Nature's law
Should you risk the spot you've won, to pull me up toward bright days
Son…
Out of the nothing - awful nothingness In which I've lain
 
Before I heard his soft reply, he was pulled from his place and brought to lie
Tattered and marked, covered with mud, against the curb that had known my
Blood...
Seeming to be nothing - except nothingness all men’s disdain.
 
I leaped once more toward the Sun, higher than I'd ever done...
Remembering the eyes of the man who fell, toward rotten stone and dark alone
Hell
I found nothing - except the nothingness
of lonely pain…

Now, something beckoned me even more, than the highest leap ever known before
I needed to touch the man below, to see his eyes and have him know
It wasn't the highest leap above and alone, that was the greatest good I'd ever
Known
but his hand outstretched to lift me up, to give me place, to share the cup...
If, in touching him I should fall toward stone, tattered my flesh and broken my
Bone
It could not be toward nothingness - Nothing's when you're
Alone.
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If in lifting him, I should fall toward stone
Tattered my flesh, and broken my bone
It could not be toward nothingness –
Nothing's when you're alone.