During Sukkot we read Kohelet, or Ecclesiasticies in English. It is a powerful piece of literature that addresses the very meaning of life in life of how fleeting and random it all seems to be. I wrote a piece this year after reading part of the actual text. I wanted to share it with you.
To everything, turn turn turn
Life moves through its motions
And humans yearn
Painting life through connecting the dots
All this will give is is what life is not
But the universe gives no one this power to demand
That life will look the way that we ourselves command
God or physics, or the way of motion
Life is a stage and you must flow with the notion
If something will be made to have a deeper meaning
It is only your conviction that will breath life into this believing
When you choose to live on the realness of life’s edge
You begin to see over that illusory ledge
For life on its own has little truth if any
Its only what we do that gives soul to it’s defending
Today is bright and tomorrow hurricane
One moment of falling, a moment of fame
Its all the roll of the dice
And it feels so random
Only what you do with it will change that abandon
And most, well most do nothing at all
They count their possessions and they risk the fall
It takes such courage to go beyond
To structure your hearts beat so that God’s world can be found
For as it stands, as long as you wait
Life’s whisper of what can be is stopped at the gate
Yet choose to walk through, choose to see
And a whole world opens where the soul can breath
Choose to live in the world of God
and nothing but nothing is a meaningless façade
For here the measure comes in a different form
The days are opportunities, not minutes to be worn
No not here in the world where God can thrive
Where every second every breath is a universe come alive
Nothing here is meaningless, nothing here is trite
Its up to us to step over that line and live it right
For no matter how you turn it, life turns its own key
And we must pick up the pieces and make sense of what we see
The only way to freedom, to a different way to breath
Is to leave this behind for God’s holy reprieve.
Nothing is meaningless if only your eyes will see
This is the true birthing, the choice given to BE.
Kohellet tells the story of a mind caught in the boundaries of me
But step into God’s world and be overwhelmed by what you see
Kohellet is the mind that knows only its own step
It tells us only what most will one day regret
For the choice is ours, at every moment at every place
Real life turns a different corner,
Where words replace
The surrender with joy and the ability to taste
The true meaning of life
Before God, face to face
No my friends, there is no meaningless charade
Only if you choose it will the darkness remain
Step out and step in to God’s holy abode
This is a meaningful life if ever it were told.
