"Such Senseless Beauty" - further meditations

Such beauty
in air, soft as dust,
filtering in fingers
through maple green.
The limestone path 
calmly curves
and crunches
beneath my shoes
as I strive to
stay in each moment
as it whispers;
in each breath
as it leaves my lungs
and returns again,
as if on a tether.

A yellow-black
tiger swallowtail
flicks its way to and fro
up a golden beam,
in and out of shadow green
and ferns quiver.

Such senseless beauty
lavished upon us,
spilling over
earth's altar
even amidst the charred remains
of bombed out cities,
twisted limbs,
hearts shattered
and innocence obliterated.

That such ugliness
and such beauty 
should be siblings of the same
Father and not
cancel each other out
but co-exist,
contrasting and complementing
each other
stuns me anew 
with every inhalation.