The Wonder of It All
by Ralph Marston

Do you ever wonder
At the wonder of it all?

Do you ever stand in awe
of the tiniest things
and how perfectly they work together?

Do you ever stop to think
about all the possibilities
and how even though they have no limit
they grow in number with every minute?

Do you ever wonder
when the leaves flutter down in autumn
at the incomprehensible power of life
that brings them back in spring?

Do you watch the waves roll in
and then look out far beyond them
where the water seems to touch the sky
and realize
that the vast expanse before your eyes
is only a small little corner
of all there really is?

And do you comprehend that all there really is,
as unimaginably grand as it may seem,
is only a smaller corner still
of all that there can be?

Do you ever wonder
how love can stay alive
past every pleasure and every pain
and even when there can be no hope
there is more than ever?

Do you ever struggle to lift a heavy rock and wonder
how a massive mountain can rise
thousands of feet above the plain
without even trying?

Do you ever realize that
no matter how much you may know,
no matter how many wonders you may have experienced,
there will always, always be more?

Do you ever wonder
why it is you wonder
and why you know what beauty is
even though you can't define it?

Do you ever wonder
who is doing the wondering,
who is looking out through your eyes
and feeling completely at home
with the wonder of it all?

Whatever you believe,
whatever you profess,
whatever you doubt or fear or hope for,
there are some things
your heart cannot deny
when you let go
and let yourself know
the wonder of it all.


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I found this on a site that begood2 shared in a thread....
I fell in love with this poem... and the pictures that went along with it ... these are the same kind of memories I had growing up (camping, hiking, fishing, etc). And I can remember sitting on logs in the mountains, or standing next to the shoreline at the ocean, or laying in a meadow gazing up at the clouds.... and just wondering how everything came together... how beautiful this earth was made for us and just revel in the fact "that the vast expanse before your eyes is only a small little corner of all there really is" I think I miss...no, I KNOW I miss taking the time to just sit and marvel at the wonders we have before us. I do need to make time for myself to just kick back and wonder... at the wonder of it all. This is really a wonder-land

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