The grass never sleeps.Or the roses.Nor does the lily have a secret eye that shuts until morning.Jesus said, wait with me. But the disciples slept.The cricket has such splendid fringe on its feet,and it sings, have you noticed, with its whole body,and heaven knows if it ever sleeps.Jesus said, wait with me. And maybe the stars did, maybethe wind wound itself into a silver tree, and didn’t move,maybethe lake far away, where once he walked as on ablue pavement,lay still and waited, wild awake.Oh the dear bodies, slumped and eye-shut, that could notkeep that vigil, how they must have wept,so utterly human, knowing this toomust be a part of the story.Mary Oliver, p.45 Thirst, Bloodaxe Books (2007)