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Numbers In Heaven (Free verse) by Dovina

My name is 183, one of myriad, born in heaven, nestled eternally between two evens, and called, with affection, odd. Some of us are prime, numbers so perfect they were flung to distant worlds, if maybe there, their beauty too might be beheld. I take delight in knowing I am certain, fixed and real, never to be forsaken or replaced, unique, useful, unmatched and unmatchable. Pregnant with potential in Platonic minds, we odds alone, save the chosen 2, titillate their senses. Sometimes in anxious moments, Senses failing, in the wonder of it all, I feel an urgent sadness, imagine myself a figment of their god-like minds, a bipolar disturbance, perhaps a mere conveyance, no more than an assertion, a useful word. Then I feel contrived by them for pleasure and convenience, lovely only in their minds. But as the notion passes, I rest in heavenly peace, unequaled and real, fixed and founded, uniquely placed by God.

Ranger 18-Mar-06/7:20 AM
The thing is, if 'love' is something more than a chemical reaction, if 'art' is something more than applying geometric shapes etc. (which is even more doubtful), I still think that those concepts are too abstract, too metaphysical to ever have a believable definition. Also, believing in them requires direct experience of them, does it not? Whereas I don't think that belief in God requires first-hand experience. It doesn't for me.
That being said, to (sort of) paraphrase Kempis, I would rather know love than know how to define it.

I'm not sure that's a good answer to your question, but I'll keep trying.




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