View This Wilderness (Considering Ecclesiastes)

There is an evil I have seen under the sun, the sort of error that arises from a ruler: Fools are put in many high positions, while the rich occupy the low ones.

Ecclesiastes 10:5-6

Fools view this domed wilderness as their
own; this soil-founded ball of rough hemispheres: 
All sides surely held together by the
pressure of invisible fingers and plumped with bumps.

It’s decked and decorated with multi-colored  
growth. Towers dominate its surface – tributes to human  
pride. Watermills and dams – similarly vain worldly 
accomplishments – harness, hinder, and reorganize the water ways.  

The waters are following an evident course;                                                         
families of fish-kind breathe it like oxygen –  
no one mortal-made can stop that. 
Lonely is man, because his earthly home evaporates. 

This situation – in other ways than that 
which He desires – is always solitary, malicious and  
vicious. God’s wise children know that the 
right routes are not so – consider organized roots: 

They twist and wind bridging the Earth’s 
inner voids; they grow their way into infinity.  
They shape the tiny seeds into stately  
trees that please The Maker in His righteousness. 

Like decadent trees, foolish men also move  
to and fro; idly and fancifully dreaming he  
considers meandering myths, but goatish fauns only 
frolic within ancient never-lands – all mannish imaginings. 

Listen to the waters roar, feel Earth 
tremble, and the skies, see them watching us.
With Godly wisdom I’ll mimic them, viewing
the glories and failures of this expansive wilderness.

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Ben Plunkett

Greetings from the booming metropolis that is Pleasant View, Tennessee. I am a man of constant spiritual highs and spiritual lows. I pray that I serve God at my highest even when I am lowest.

Ben was a founding member of Rambling Ever On and a regular contributor and editor until his untimely death in April 2020.

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