Original DDE™ surreal art: “Time’s Wheel of Uncertainty” by: rob kistner © 12/10/24
The great wheel of time
rises up through fog of history
midst missed moments meadow
silhouetted by grey of mystery
this great wheel of time
turns ever slow and steadily
its fluid mass unstoppable
it revolves onward mightily
outlives the mortal mountain
bears the burden of potentially
sees ages and civilizations
borne and razed eventually
our frail lifetimes ride this wheel
how far — is not for us to see
with faith and fate, ’round we go
orbiting bold toward our destiny
as ever fragile temporal beings
of a most truly amazing bravery
we choose to dream of a tomorrow
for which there is no guarantee
though circling toward this future
of veiled and vague contingency
still on we whirl — and dare to love
despite this vast uncertainty
Original DDE™ surreal art: “Fate’s Guardians of Time”
by: rob kistner © 12/10/24
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rob kistner © 12/10/24
Poetry at: dVerse
Uncertain wheel indeed…
we dream of a tomorrow
for which there is no guarantee
I lost my brother recently and unfortunately his dream ended too soon! Your words speak to my broken heart…
So so very sorry True! 🙁 ((((hug)))) Remember him in your heart, for there he will live in love with you for the rest of your life my friend. Peace!!
If there’s one thing that stops the wheel of time, it’s love which exists out of time and eternally. Daring to love, we embrace eternity. How beautifully you show how it overcomes temporal uncertainty too, Rob.
Thank you Dora. Here is how I envision it. Nothing stops the wheel of time, unless all of existence became pure void. We get off the wheel of time personally when our material existence becomes pure energy at our death. Time does not exist in that ethereal essence, nor does any personal awareness — we reach the pure oneness, returning from whence we came. It can be difficult for many, as it certainly was for me, to grasp that personal awareness is only necessary to operate and maintain this body in which we are now isolated, in order that the energy possessing it can utilize it to achieve the awareness of oneness. At that point we become a balanced positive for the oneness. What is most difficult to grok, is that personal awareness is not a liberation, it is a confining isolation — nor can we fully comprehend the ecstasy of oneness. This cage of “I” is all we know, so we become frightened of letting go of this “familiar”, to instead become truly infinite. Like any fear, it holds us until we overcome it. At that point we also realize just how limiting that fear was, and how it held us captive. {that concludes the flow of enlightenment at this particular moment}