Being in Eternity and Time

December 14, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is light and darkness, in honor of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, which began on December 12.

Today’s poem is about how one can through the imagination know eternity within time.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Being in eternity and time,

One knows both, as though a piece of music

Not only was itself, but every piece

Not heard, not even written, as though the moment

Included all that ever was, could ever be,

Even what one never could imagine.

Sing of the gift that brings one to imagine

Eternity within each tick of time,

The daily human miracle that can be

Heard in the intensity of music,

Every ecstasy that fills the moment,

Letting one find glory piece by piece.

In the eternal moment there is peace.

Zero and infinity. Imagine

All creation in a single moment,

Being in the grip of conscious time,

Eternities in thoughts, in words, in music,

That bring one to the finite brink of be,

Here beside the radiance of be.

Each of us can turn within towards peace,

Living in the midst of silent music,

Listening to songs one can imagine.

Even fuel-less flames go out in time.

Nor can forever be but in the moment.

Give thanks for every day, year, hour, moment,

Alive as only one who dies can be.

Be grateful for the unsought gift of time,

Ripening towards wisdom, love, and peace.

In every pulse, one can reimagine

Eternity, as grace, as timeless music.

Live, then, in the ambiance of music,

Alive in both forever and the moment,

Needing, to be joyful, to imagine

Death within the miracle of be,

Knowing that eternal inner peace

Endures beneath the holocaust of time.

Nor does the music vanish with the moment.

Nor can what one imagines well but be

A piece of praise song sung for one’s own time.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/being4.html. For more Hanukkah poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/chanukahpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Light and Darkness

December 11: Have a Happy Hanukkah

December 12: Bless the Darkness, Bless the Light

December 13: Can One Celebrate a Miracle

December 14: Being in Eternity and Time