Space the “final frontier”
so, they say.
But what is space?
A star laden sky?
The space between
atoms?
The 6 foot
social distance?
We are mostly space.
We may look solid, but
we are not.
We unsolid Beings are
born of stars dust.
Star Dust longing
for something more.
So, we search for . . .
what?
We search for knowledge,
for meaning, something to
hang our star dust on.
We search for soul,
and spirit.
We search, by any name,
for Gd.
The ancients looked to
the heavens.
The religious told us
Gd lived there.
They were all,
sort of,
wrong.
You can travel an infinite
distance into space, and
still only find
space.
Yet if you travel within
each of our, or any, atom, we
find a space we cannot go with technology,
a space so small
it appears empty.
Is it empty?
Or is that space within what
we’ve been looking for
since we crawled out of the sea?
Could that “empty” space,
the still small, so very small space be
the place we find Gd.
That very small space,
larger than a mountain,
longer than the longest river,
wider than the sea,
could
that be where we find Gd?
Might we discover within
each of us, a piece of Gd
has always been?
Might we discover a thread
finer than silk,
stronger than steel,
connects us to each other
through space
called Gd?
That still, small, space
we cannot go,
just might,
be the answer
we have been searching for.
Maybe?
Go within and
look.
Ruth Jewell, ©November 25, 2021
A Quiet Walk 