Indra's net

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Indra's Net

 

"Each fisher, with homemade net of differing mesh,

Catches life's experience sized

According to the holes between the knots.

Each fisher takes these net-caught meanings

For what fish there are. They call to one another,

"Your nets are wrong ! Those are not true fishes."

And they take the tales of one another's catches

For fish stories. They tell heroic sagas

Of the ones that got away; for, in truth,

There are uncounted fishes

That pass through all our nets, and fish so large

They tear our nets to tatters if we dare

To fish the depths. And how often

Do we carefully skein the long familiar shoals

And hang our nets to dry, proclaiming

"I have caught all the fish in the sea."

And who has not scoffed at the youth

With handline, the wrong bait,

And in inauspicious waters patiently awaiting

The fish that our nets tell us

Does not exist ? Words.

They are the nets we humans go a-fishing with."

 

-- Mike Young

 

 

LoveAlways,

 

Mazie