COGENT EXPRESSION
It was my MA
Like many youngsters, I had been questioning the existence of God.
I had been asking why we needed a God
When I read the SECOND COMING, two verses struck me.
"Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold:
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world"
It made me think of the earth spinning on its axis.
I visualised what would happen if the rotation is abruptly disrupted
I could see everything on the earth flying off like when the vehicle you travel breaks suddenly
Yes, that is the moment I saw God. That is the moment I understood what God does
Well, any institution or organisation will have disruptors.
Trojan horses would always lurk
If the centre cannot hold
If the Trojan horses hold sway
Utter chaos shatters the edifice
Built with sweat and toil
Through days and months and years and centuries
While Lucifer smiles and laughs
God with a single touch
Halts the chaos
And restores order
W B Yeats
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?