Original DDE™ surreal art: “Timeless Journey” by: rob kistner © 10/16/23
Farewell my friend
your physical journey
on the elemental wheel
is now complete
the quiet earth enfolds your form
your spirit’s freed to travel
adjoining with the infinite universe
may your precious life energy
burst into beautiful eternal light
dazzling beyond time and space
Original DDE™ surreal art: “Elemental Wheel”
by: rob kistner © 10/14/23
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rob kistner © 10/14/2020
Poems at: dVerse
Beautiful, Rob.
Thank you De… 🙂
Bursting into beautiful eternal light. Wonderful imagery.
Thank you Melissa, glad you like that image — it appeals to me greatly… 🙂
We should all be so lucky, to be headed for the light even if we have to leave our loves behind.
Gret stuff, Rob. Thanks.
Thank you Ron. We are all headed to that final burst of energy. It is the only thing, my friend, that fits logically in my little pea brain. When this mortal husk runs down that stuff that is not husk moves on. Even if the damn husk runs down slowly and faulty — there inevitably comes that final burst.
Beautifully written Rob. Beautiful digital artwork!
Thank you Deight… 🙂
That’s where I want to go when I go.
“eternal light
dazzling beyond time and space”
Do you think we’ll have any memory of this life?
No, I do not Lisa, but it won’t matter. We will have evolved to such an elevated composition and integration of energy, that what this life is, will be of no relevance or interest. I believe as humans, we have arrived at the highest level of personal, “temporal” awareness — and it is flawed and incomplete. Beyond here I believe we enter an essence of infinite being, which is so totally different from our current finite being, that we can’t, in this moment, begin to comprehend how limiting and unnecessary the concept of “personal” awareness truly is. It is only our current limited ability to grok true “is”—ness that causes us to think we may miss our current narrow awareness of “self”. The “self” is our current dead-end limitation and isolation. Beyond here we burst into a perfect light. Of course — just my opinion my friend. However, this concept I embrace has evolved and solidified consistently over my years, in my ongoing thinking, meditating, writing, and in recent years, lucid waking dreams — and anchored by my near-death experience that resulted in my pacemaker. I don’t generally talk openly about this path of my thought, for fear I will freak others out, or be considered mad. It is only in recent years that I have been able to tie together my random lose threads of thought on this matter, into forming a strand of conceptual continuum. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed — only changed to a different form.
Beautiful words.
Thank you Arcadia… 🙂
I love this, Rob. Your reply to Lisa resonated deeply with me. Deeply.
Thank you Helen… 🙂
It always pains us with farewells, but blessing them with such wishes makes us feel good.
For me it is my expression of my ism… 🙂
Your quadrille reads like a eulogy, Rob, a comforting goodbye. I like the thought that my ‘spirit’s freed to travel’ and ‘burst into beautiful eternal light’.
It was written for all the family, friends and meaningful acquaintances I have lost in my life — certainly in the difficult recent years… 😐
I had wondered if this was for someone you lost recently, but I see in the comments that it’s for many over the years. Beautiful, Rob. <3
Thank you my friend. Yes. It was a good bye to many I have lost Merril… 🙂
What a beautiful send-off for a loved one.
Thank you Dale… 🙂
This is an amazing poem and artworks – especially the top art.
I’m intrigued to read your personal philosophy in a comment above. Did you also walk towards a great light in your near death experience Rob?
Thank you Kim… 🙂 It wasn’t so much that I was walking towards a great light. My heart stopped while I was sleeping, absent any awareness. I semi-awoke out of pure incoherent darkness. I have a vivid memory of an intense light shining on me. I believe it was probably the bright lights in the operating theater, where they were inserting my pacemaker — but I’ll never know for certain, because I didn’t regain useful awareness until I was in thr recovery room. It certainly left an incredibly intense, and strikingly memorable impact on my psyche.
Gorgeous, Rob
Thank you David… 🙂