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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.

Dovina 18-Mar-06/7:58 AM
Given all the religions in the world’s history, and all the art, and possibly all the love (though love seems lacking compared to the other two), it seems empirically evident that we are built (created perhaps) with strong propensities for believing in God, creating art, and loving. And we seem to like mixing the three - “God is love,” for example, and the artistically fabricated parables of Jesus. Yes, I think it’s a good observation that the three are probably wrapped up together, or maybe they are three approaches to the same reality.

I feel that by loving, I know an aspect of God. But that’s an unprovable feeling. I also feel that when, on rare occasion, I create art, that too is an extension of God.

My God, I’ve left a lot of logical holes in this statement. Lambaste me!




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