“ And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.”
- Buckaroo Banzai
Deep and distant musings about space.
Just as time prevents everything from happening at once, space keeps everything from ending up in the same place...
Intergalactic Distances are Mind-Bending. (source)
To contemplate crossing the vast reaches of space requires wrapping your mind around truly unfathomable distances. For example, it takes light—traveling at 186,000 miles per second—about two and one-half million years to travel to Earth from the Andromeda galaxy pictured above.
My sonnet speaks to the magnitude of separation.
Lovers at times face the pain of separation. The rift may be due to things like exigent circumstances, such as traveling for work or military service. Sometimes parting is necessitated by prior commitments. And—arguably the most final reason of all—is the death of one member of a couple...
"So far away, doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore?"
- Carole King
When separation occurs,
even if you happen to remain close in space and time, you might as well be millions of light years apart, unimaginably distant, stranded in another galaxy.
But enough grumbling.
Even in the most painful of circumstances, hope springs eternal. The ultimate answer to everything is Jesus/God's promise of New Heavens and a New Earth. All wrongs righted, all tears wiped away, no more sickness or death.
“For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
But be glad and enjoy
that which I create forever;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
I will enjoy Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress."
- Isaiah 65:17-19 (emphasis added)
Would you like to be part of that coming celebration? Ask me how.
Now, for the sonnet (intended to be read aloud):
~Distant Lovers~
A Sonnet by Duncan Cary Palmer
It started in all innocence and smiles.
At first, no more than mere platonic friends,
Though kept asunder by restraining miles,
A passion rose that would not brook an end.
By new love and affection wholly shaken,
We hungered to unite as yang and yin,
But faithful to the spouses ere now taken,
We balked at entertaining thoughts of sin.
Such great remove! As Jupiter from Mars,
Our lives—in this age—separate must be.
Cut off, as if dispatched to distant stars,
Each, exiled to a different galaxy.
By God's grace, one day, e'en this gulf we'll span,
His gift to us as resurrected man.
Anticipating a fiery future conjunction... (source)
~FIN~
~More Sonnets~ ~More Poetry~
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Another lovely poem, thank you creatr :-) The distance that we feel when we cannot satiate the feelings that we have for another, creates such an emptiness inside.. and we can also experience becoming distant from others around us as we indulge in obsessing about what can never be. !LUV !PIZZA !ALIVE
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Hi, Sam!
Thank you so very much for reading and for your thoughtful comments!
For Christians, both of the feelings you've so succinctly described, as well as possible consequent obsession, are addressed and mediated by our blessed hope. By the unfathomable kindness of Jesus our God, we look forward to a blindingly bright future of living—forever, no less!—in a fully perfected universe, in physically young and healthy bodies—bodies with extended capabilities only partially as yet revealed,—and with absolutely renewed, refreshed, and totally-at-peace minds and mental outlooks that are only capable of blissful relationships with one another.
There is literally nothing more we could ask for, given the hope/expectation/certainty we are promised in scripture by a loving God who is incapable of lying.❤️
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I feel the power of yin and yang all around us. It really is fascinating. Great poetry. Just curious as you mention Space and religion, do you believe in creation or the big bang theory though?
Greetings, @mypathtofire,
Thank you for reading and thinking about my sonnet.
I believe that the man commonly known as Jesus is actually the Creator/God of the universe. I'm an avid student of the bible, presently attempting to read through the Greek portions in the original Koine (common) Greek of the time. (I'm about 2/3 of the way through, and continually learning fascinating things).
I also write fiction in the niche genre of theological fantasy, in which stories I attempt to visualize what my never-ending life will be like in the New Heavens and New Earth that Jesus has promised to all who come to know and follow him for who he really is.
I'm not a fan of the big bang; scripture pictures Jesus/God as spreading out the heavens like a curtain. It also presents many other mind-boggling images of what he's done in all of creation, endlessly fascinating to me.
I really appreciate your visit and your thoughtful question. If my answer has at all piqued your interest, I invite you to browse my (unfortunately not fully up to date) library (click on the image below, and explore! But also check articles within the last year or so, not all of which have as yet made it to my library shelves).
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Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. It is for sure mind-boggling to behold the creation by God all around us. I will bookmark your articles to check later.
It is interesting how love can transcend time, space, and death. Thank you for sharing, visiting from dreemport :)
Greetings, @grindan,
Thanks so much for your comment. Yes, a phenomenon both interesting and wonderful.
Nice to meet you here from Dreemport... Thank you for stopping in and reading my sonnet!
I invite you to check out my library sometime by clicking on the image below. :D
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thanks for the sonnet
Thank you for reading it!
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I feel the sentiment. Nicely done my friend and thanks for sharing.
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