after all

I saw a cloud that looked like a dolphin

I heard a dolphin that sounded like an old man laughing

the old man’s laugh felt as radiant as the sun shining

the sunshine warmed my heart 
until the clouds returned, dark as a raven

it reminded me that a heart can ache so

yet after the broken heart

rain and raven clouds retreat

and I see a rainbow

and the rainbow is like nothing else on earth

yet the earth is like a pebble

tossed upon a great ocean called universe

and the universe is infinite

and infinity is no more or less miraculous than a single living cell

which is no more or less miraculous than the atoms that comprise it

and no more or less miraculous than the empty space between it, 

that is indeed by no means empty, 
but a force of harmony after all.

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