Falling Beauty

I first noticed it when I was walking in the woods
I had looked up at the snow, and after a while of watching
I suddenly realized that it was repeating.

I could watch it for, oh, five minutes or so before there would be a break in the stream,
A stop of the flow
Where I would be able to see that it was just the same thing
Running over and over again.

After that, I was fascinated, and began looking at other things in nature to see if they did
The same thing.

They did.

I was watching the waves in the ocean, and apparently too small to be noticed by anyone around me,
I could see that every so often, there was a cut, a flaw, in the surge.
The waves would simply stop for an instant before beginning again where they had ten minutes before.

It was the same with the trees.
I could see that when they were waving in the wind, it was like a video that refused to stop
A badly edited audio clip, where you can hear the break in the music before the repeat starts
They wound their black arms around the air, just to wind them in the same pattern again and again in an interval of eleven minutes.

I counted these times up, and found that the Earth repeats itself every seventy-two minutes and thirty-four seconds.

And then I began to wonder if maybe it wasn’t the earth repeating
But me
Perhaps I was traversing the barriers of occasion to live in a world that was not constantly changing.

But then I realized that it was not just me
Every human
Every living creature
That I could see was also doing it.

While the Earth was constantly repeating itself, unbeknownst to the human race
All except me that is
Our lives went on.

How is it then that we can destroy things and they do not just reappear every seventy-two minutes and thirty-four seconds?

That, I think is the mystery of the phenomena
Truly we live in a miraculous place.