Gaps.
Inevitably there will be.
Where little truths sit
sufficiently distant
on our journey,
knowing, in those spaces
will be where we
eventually find ourselves.
And as we are virtually water
and the atoms of us
99.9% nothingness
it is in the gaps
where definition lies.
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Super cool Brian, the way you brought that full circle. Really good poem!
interesting philosophy brian…i would agree….i like how you use the fact we are made up of so much water in this…its fluidity fits those gaps nicely…have a great end of the year sir
And you too, Brian. May fulfilment come and stay with you.
99.9% nothingness… and the definition in the gaps… def. makes sense… and i like when we every once and a while discover a bit more of what makes us who we are…
And like every self examining system will never know ourselves completely. The beautiful mystery of us
Well done poem–succinct and insightful. >KB
Oh indeed.. what else than nothingness. and still so solid… this is a nice mystery to ponder. and somwhere there we have Higgs that fills it with mass.
And has me wondering what is the soul’s equivalent of the Higgs’ boson?
The second introspective poem of yours I’m reading. There is something about winter that does that, isn’t there?
That there is, Victoria. Winter, Scotland and current reading material of Monika Wikman’s “Pregnant Darkness” on Alchemy and the rebirth of Consciousness all driving me inwards and upwards! 🙂
Nice. A very thoughtful piece. 🙂
Simply brilliant piece. Reading your poetry for the first time and loved it.
So kind of you to say. I hope you find something which resonates with you.
Why didn’t I write that! Such clarity …a fine one, Brian!
One of those small pieces that had me absolutely jiggered (as we say) by the end of it, Jackie!
‘…it is in the gaps where definition lies.”
beautiful closing.
Always nice to have a punch line 🙂
Yes Brian – exactly – like the layout of the poem which concretes in the message of the poem. As we say in figure skating – it all happens in the transitions. Why do I think that may be the gap between life and death? Great piece.
And you make me look at it again, Gay, with new eyes.
Very interesting mechanic (s)al ( or scientific) thought:)
“knowing, in those spaces” Do people really understand and give that space……… I wonder……. Well done
Some people, Lasha. .. And maybe acknowledging the gaps in our conscious selves and accepting , which can make us whole.
wonderful koan-like meditation, the spiritual in the science of it.
Oh I shall be thinking about this for some time.