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The Spaces Between

THE SPACES BETWEEN

I am here and you are there
Close in affection love and care
We coexist in a larger sphere
But I'm not there and you're not here

Here I am and there thou art
We come together then we part
Separation means no less serene
The parting makes a space between

No man is an island the poet said
So must we be continentally wed?
Merged, united as one world nation
No free-willed self determination

This does not deny our essential coaction 
Nor say we live without attraction
But each isle is distinct, individual, though
We exist as in archipelago

As with notes in a beautiful symphony
No matter in what fine harmony
The composer's key melody supreme
Depends on the spaces that intervene

That passing bell may not toll for me
Yet I’d mourn the loss of thee, she or he
You see though we're not an amalgamation
We have the great gift: of communication

Across all known spaces waves are flowing
Linking furthest points of a universe growing
We detect photons from distant galaxy
Can we not treat in closer proximity

So with hugs and Omm and kumbaya
You may lose yourself in nirvana
Praise oneness if you must by all mean
I'll bless the spaces in between

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Joe Dimino

Date: 9/14/2021 9:05:00 PM

Excellent! Far more poetic than anything I wrote, Geoffrey -- in essence you are also saying that distance, space, are the illusions of consciousness, or the product of limited consciousness. Great minds think alike. I wrote an extended thesis on this some twenty years ago. I think you would enjoy: http://light-cards.com/Unified%20Theory.html

L. J. Carber

Date: 5/29/2018 12:19:00 PM

I can dig the last stanza, Geoff-- in my experience, the soul is unique and exists beyond time, without beginning or end, in a sort of eternal moment.

Subimal Sinha-Roy

Date: 12/14/2017 6:32:00 AM

Thank you for your comments on my poem Closeness. Space has many connotations, from physics to spiritualism. In nrivana space collapses. maybe even time.

Maureen McGreavy Pigeon Tart

Date: 10/20/2017 10:34:00 AM

Fantastic pen :) xomo!

Geoffrey Brewer
Date: 10/20/2017 2:07:00 PM

Thanks, Maureen.