If the Earth
were only a few feet in diameter,
floating a few feet
above a field somewhere,
people would come from everywhere to marvel
at it.
People would walk around it marvelling at its
big pools of water, its little pools
and the water flowing
between. People would marvel at the bumps on it and
the holes
in it. They would marvel at the very thin layer of gas
surrounding
it and the water suspended in the gas. The people
would marvel at all the creatures
walking around the surface of
the ball and at the creatures in the water.
The people would
declare it as sacred because it was the only one, and they
would
protect it so that it would not be hurt. The ball would be the
greatest wonder
known, and people would come to pray to
it, to be healed, to gain knowledge, to know beauty and
to
wonder how it could be. People would love it and defend
it with thier lives
because they would somehow
know that thier lives would be nothing
without it.
If the Earth were only
a few feet in diameter.
Joe Miller
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