Poetry – From the heart – dedicated to the 96 and all who loved them

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From the heart and back

There is a world with, a universe in which we live. The outside world is unreal – merely constructed from electrical impulses sent in from nerves. We do not see a real world but merely the one created by our brains – partial at very best.

We have no way of knowing if the universe really exists at all.

For if I severed all your senses and fed in those electrical pulses your brain would live within that artificial universe.

So the me I am, is my greatest creation. It is all I have but even its most cherished memories are constantly reinvented.

What is real?

So when we love and communicate, using whatever symbols, we must surely always fail. The symbols of language are approximations of our thoughts and feelings, limited and partial. To be interpreted by another universe whose rules are different. They can only ever brush the surface -–surely?

Yet not.

‘I love you’ stirs the heart of both the donor and recipient the same.

Love is the greatest communicator of them all.


 

From the heart and back

 

I wrote a poem from the heart.

It was only words –

Letters arranged in symbols.

But I tried to capture

The dreams

Within my heart

And cage them in black ink.

 

Your eyes scan those symbols

While your brain

Unshackles the concepts

They contain.

Each momentarily freed

To connect,

To rebuild,

Those same dreams

I saw within my head.

 

I trust the dreams

Built within you head

Were full of love

The same as mine;

A mirror image –

You love I.

 

Opher 27.4.2015

The 96 Hillsborough victims and all who loved you – You’ll Never Walk Alone!

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To all the families and friends of the victims of the Hillsborough tragedy – As a Manchester United supporter – I send you my warmest sympathy.

You’ve walked through a terrible storm for twenty seven years and you’ve held your head up high.

After yesterday’s ruling you can walk tall and know there is a golden sky ahead.

The start of justice has begun. There have been terrible lies spoken. And an orchestrated campaign against you. The Sun and Police should hold their heads down in shame. Hopefully there will be prosecutions for the ones who made the mistakes and those who tried their hardest to cover it up. I would particularly like to see those who deliberately made up the atrocious lies about the behaviour of the Liverpool supporters brought to justice. They are scum.

The lies that were deliberately manufactured to cover up the mistakes made have not only caused distress but have tarnished the name of Liverpool supporters and Liverpool. Those people who deliberately did those malicious and inexcusable acts need locking away.

Justice is coming.

The country is united with you – You’ll never walk alone again!