If the earth were only...

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
marveling at its big pools of water,its little pools,
and the water flowing between the pools. People would
marvel at the bumps on it,and the holes in it,and 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 precious 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 the people would come to
behold 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 their lives,
because they would somehow know that
their lives, their own roundness,
would be nothing without it.
If the Earth were only
a few feet in
diameter.

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