consider the field is never always smooth; there are times that the grass turns brown and the flowers wilt and their petals return to the ground …consider these things… what was a frolicing maid becomes a hag; the virulent man shrivels and becomes incapable and so the sky, never always clear and boundless and so the clouds, not always childhood pleasantries but they come into chaos and dreariness and pile dollops of dark humor and so our lives, darlings, O sweet ones - regard these things well - and so our lives too pass from radiant days to gasp below dreary shades from a happy, happy song to a dirge over the dale – and not all our rosaries and beads and prayers and faith nothing will halt, in spite of stories they recite, nothing will halt the sun and the passage of time and so like the artist it is best to observe like the artist in the field capture the moment, savor the life and if anything, make of one’s life a beauty that others may pause to gaze at as pausing to gaze at a rose, the cherry blossoms… be you makers of beauty, darlings, O darlings, consider these things O sweet ones…
Poem based on painting “Withered Field” by Kuroda Seiki (1866-1924); picture from wikipedia