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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 19-Mar-06/12:09 PM
You see, the preconception I've acquired is that love, if it exists, is entirely infallible - and so it's difficult for me to think of love as being terrible. It's equally difficult for me to accept that a relationship which fails can have truly been love. Relationships which last to the grave are the closest to proof I can find. But these don't define love. I disagree with the idea that feeling love doesn't equate to defining it. I think that love (if it exists) cannot be defined linguistically, but experience is in itself a non-linguistic definition. The problem is that it can only be a definition to the recipient of that experience. Similarly, I believe that an experience - again, if such an occurrence happens - of God (particularly an ecstatic revelation) is a definition of God (or a part of God). Again, this is something which language cannot capture, nor can it be used to ferry proof to another individual. I think I do understand what you mean, but it's a proper bugger to express.

And yes, God is a great comfort at times.




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