The Vital Void: What Makes Us Miss Out What Life’s All About?
What makes us miss out
What we need to include in our minds
To make life worth living -
Loving, caring, joyful, creative, understandable, sustainable -
A gift to be received, nurtured and passed on
In continuous relay
And instead treat life as a quest
Against all odds
For supremacy, certainty and material wealth
At all costs to our psyche, environment and bodily health?
.
It’s hard to avoid
The fear of the void
When it’s represented to us
As the end, not the source, of us all
Making us seek salvation
In false conclusions
That miss out
By division or union
What needs to occur
In the depth of our selves
And the depth of our habitats
To make our lives possible
In the first place
.
It’s then that we need
With less haste, more speed
To return to our senses
And take into account
The intangible that’s missing
From all measured amount -
The infinite quality
Throughout and beyond quantity
That our fear of missing out
Misses out
But our innate love of life
Knows only too well
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For further exploration of the vital void and its co-creative relationship with natural energy flow, see http://www.spanglefish.com/exploringnaturalinclusion
Postscript
***Bringing Numbers to Life***
And Why This Matters So Much
Are numbers really inert
Dead bodies
That can be dissected
Into wholes and parts
Integers and fractions
To be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided
By external force
According to rigid rules
That can’t be broken
Without going badly wrong?
.
So I was taught at school
Which made me feel like a fool
When I couldn’t get into my head
What somehow filled me with dread
And made no sense of what thrives
Beyond what merely survives
.
Or do numbers really hurt?
Like people
When treated this way
All the way down to hadrons collided
At vast expense
In the vain quest to find
What goes missing
By way of innermost receptivity
Within current circulation
That sitting here in my armchair
I can dare
To envisage in the blink of an eye
Simply why
Mass can’t exist without volume
The natural dynamic inclusion of space
Within energetic flux
And energetic flux
In space
.
And in that magical moment
See numbers come to life
As dances in formation
In ones, twos, threes
Monocycles, bicycles, tricycles and more
Around the zero-point core
The hole that isn’t a whole
And so can’t be divided
Without dying on the spot
.
Well, you might ask me
How much does this matter?
And I’d have to answer
Quite a lot
Concerning a small matter of the difference
Between life and death
And how we treat ourselves
Our neighbours
And neighbourhood
With loving care
Or that distanced neglect
In which all our lives
Get wrecked
