Interspace

INTERSPACE

I am here and you are there
Though 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
In parting we need be no less serene
For separation makes a space between

No man is an island the poet said
So must we be continentally wed?
Merged and united as one world nation
With no independent self determination

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

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

That passing bell may not toll for me
Yet I would 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 still growing
If we detect a photon from a star at extremity
Can we not confer 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


In the philosophy concerning the nature of, and relationship with the universe and with each other, there are a three hypotheses (and more) that I allude to in this poem: the principle that two different objects cannot occupy the same location; that space is defined by separation of points; and that communication is possible between points across a distance in space (and in fact creates that space). This leaves out the question of whether we are constrained as physical objects, or as spiritual entities, above and beyond all that.

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