To Be, To Feel, To Love, To Live, To Die
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Author's Notes: "TO BE, TO FEEL, TO LOVE, TO LIVE, TO DIE" is a Didactic verse poem that I completed on August 29, 2015. This poem is a self-reflective verse write. With it, I wanted to put certain principal feelings, thoughts, and emotions into more of a dynamic perspective from philosophical and metaphysical aspects, and from how each of these infinitive verb statements delve into a further reflection of our individual inner psyche and touch on our respective connections to the spiritual world and our greater cosmic existence and destiny. I really enjoyed this particular write. It afforded me the distinct opportunity to consider the importance of these select feelings, thoughts, and emotions since they are central to all of us as human beings, and do play such a demonstrative role in who and what we are in our earthly existence, and their ultimate impact on us as we move on from this life one day and our soul beings transcend this mortal coil and become one with the unending ethereal and cosmic dimension. (Gary Bateman - September 20, 2015) (Didactic)
Categories: courage, destiny, devotion, emotions, feelings, heaven, and hope.
TO BE, TO FEEL, TO LOVE, TO LIVE, TO DIE
TO BE is that existential moment that defines each of us on our
respective life paths as we each individually acknowledge the
reality of our human existence on this Earth. To be able to laugh
and cry, to think and wonder, to create and perpetuate, to read
and write—among many other human actions, helps to define
our human experience as we individually and collectively pursue
a philosophical and ethereal realization of our cosmic existence.
TO FEEL is a special characteristic that reflects the nature of
human compassion as it is often associated in consonance with
a genuine understanding of relationships and all-important human
interaction. To be able to feel something positive for someone
is a grand thing. It is certainly inherent in our human psyche as
we each reach out to one another in times of joy and sadness,
crisis and affirmation, and friendship and love.
TO LOVE is that most special emotion which has a tremendous
effect in covering the vast expanse of our daily human experience.
Love excites us and it can depress us. Love makes our blood boil
with passion and purpose. Love makes us happy and it can break
our hearts. Love is that special alchemic catalyst that transforms
us as we seek our respective destinies in search of that other one
person who loves us and opens our hearts and souls to Heavenly
Redemption.
TO LIVE is what we humans do on this wonderful planet that we
inhabit—this Earth. Although we all live here in this everyday world,
there is for many people, little or no real understanding of the special
relationship to their Soul Body beyond the limitations of this certain
mortal coil. To live and to live well, one must show a capacity for
both empathy and compassion toward one’s fellow human beings.
Our days living here on this Earth but mark our mortal time which
will eventually run out for each one of us like grains of sand in a
fabled Hourglass. Beyond our challenge to define ourselves in this
mortal plane, lies that divine and ethereal world of God as our souls
seek their place and destiny as they journey toward eternity.
TO DIE is that special final moment that describes the action ending
of our mortal existence on Earth as our individual souls seek to find
and fulfill their destiny with God Himself in the very outreaches of
His infinite kingdom of wonder, beauty, and divine glory. This whole
process gives each and every one of us the closure we need to break
the earthly bounds that have defined and circumscribed our existence
in this finite mortal world. This process is inevitable and is something
not to be feared, but to be understood and embraced as God helps
each of us on our eventual spiritual journey along His footpaths to
eternity and into the everlasting light.
Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved – August 29, 2015
(Didactic)
Copyright © Gary Bateman | Year Posted 2015
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