The Breadth of Eternity
What new senses
Would we need
To ‘see’ it all?
What size mind
Would we require
To understand
Reality?
What strange wavelengths
Would reveal
The full breadth
Of eternity?
What weirdly distorted view
Of the universe
Do our limited
Senses reveal?
From what partial understanding
Of life
Do our feeble minds
Create the surreal?
Opher – 23.5.2023
Like ants in an ant heap, going about our lives. Sensing the world with our limited five senses, yet believing we see it all, as it is. Trying to understand life, infinity, evolution, the big bang and eternity with such limited cerebral power. Yet believing that we really understand.
Creating cities, machines and instruments, art, music and gods.
Living in a surreal universe that we pretend is rational and mundane.
Like ants in an ant heap, bacteria in a toilet bowl, reflecting on what is.
I’m reminded of the Roy Harper line: ‘Everything’s just everything because everything just is.’
I bet you would really enjoy a book called “Ways of Being” by James Bridle. It goes into non-human intelligence, plants, animals, even machines. I find it fascinating and I’m only on chapter 4. I enjoyed your perspective in this poem.
Thanks LuAnne. That sounds right up my street!
Found it!