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A Grain Of Rice By : Jerry Kim and Ryley Woodland

Such majestic rhythms, such tiny disturbances. - The majestic rhythms can be digging holes in the ground, tiny disturbances can be the seeds being planted  The rain of the monsoon falls, an inescapable treasure, - You cannot escape the rain, it is a treasure because it used to grow rice  Hundreds of millions live  Only because of the certainty of this season, - They live because they know they'll get rice, it is their food  The turn of the wind. - Before they were starving, then when the season comes, they will not be starving, they will have rice

The frame of our human house rests on the motion  Of earth and of moon, the rise of continents, - Their house rests on the amount of rice they get, this impacted by the seasons and weather  Invasion of deserts, erosion of hills,  The capping of ice. - Horrible things that can kill the rice

Today, while Europe tilted, drying the Baltic,  I read of a battle between brothers in anguish.  A flag moved a mile.

And today, from a curled leaf cocoon, in the course of its rhythm,  I saw the break of a shell, the creation  Of a great Asian moth, radiant, fragile,  Incapable of not being born, and trembling <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> To live its brief moment.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">Religions build walls round our love, and science <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> Is equal of truth and of error. Yet always we find <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> Such ordered purpose in cell and in galaxy, <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> So great a glory in life-thrust and mind-range, <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> Such widening frontiers to draw out our longings, <span style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> We grow to one world