Moved By The Beauty Of The World Poem by Raj Arumugam

like all of us
like many before
like you, like the next person
i too am moved
by the wonders and beauty of the world
and by the quiet and simplicity
and the by the world’s grace




i was moved by sounds
and gardens
and surrounds
and i asked myself
how and why


i was moved by speech
and words and play
and i asked myself
how and why


i was moved by books
by poets and thinkers
and volumes of world heritage
and i asked myself
how and why


i was moved by life
by moments here
and faces and animals
and all creatures and clouds
and by the trees and the sun;
and i asked myself
how and why


i was moved by mountains
and lakes and oceans;
i was moved by a blade of grass
as much as by the depths of forests
and i asked myself
how and why


i did not want theories
to explain this
and i did not want authority
to catechize me comforting beliefs
but to see it for what it is:
how and why


and the insight
rolled forth like waves:
notice, it happens,
when there is no
more of you,
none of those
contents of the mind


and so now
though i still am
moved by the world
and its beauty
and simplicity
one can see more though
to that
quiet
that comes
in the absence of identity




like all of us
like many before
like you, like the next person
i too am moved
by the wonders and beauty of the world
and by the quiet and simplicity
and by the world’s grace