The Happening

            What happens to me must have happened to other persons in all ages.

            Nature, now and then, does throw up these unique flowers.

            They do not all necessarily speak the same language

            Nor behave the same way.

            When one touches life at a point where no one has touched it before,

            The person is finished with the entire past,

            Though his background would continue to express itself in a unique way.

            They do not offer themselves as models to be followed,

            Much less want to change the world,

            Though their utterances and their very presence

            Might have a great impact on human consciousness

            And cause some radical sight in human understanding.