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Distances that Separate

3/29/2021

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Architectural lines of containment dissolve into glaring strips of dancing light on the horizon. Perhaps this distant realm, now coming into view, has always resided within. The wall of consciousness glitches, blinks, and fades into glimmering water and the realization that the gap was an illusion. 

References:
I Am Standing Upon The Seashore
I am standing upon the seashore.
A ship at my side spreads her white
sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.
She is an object of beauty and strength.
I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud
just where the sea and sky come
to mingle with each other. 
Then, someone at my side says;
"There, she is gone!" 
"Gone where?"
Gone from my sight. That is all.
She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side
and she is just as able to bear her
load of living freight to her destined port.
Her diminished size is in me, not in her. 
And just at the moment when someone
at my side says, "There, she is gone!"
There are other eyes watching her coming,
and other voices ready to take up the glad shout;
"Here she comes!"
And that is dying. - Henry Van Dyke
  • https://www.funeralguide.co.uk/help-resources/arranging-a-funeral/planning-the-service/funeral-poems/i-am-standing-upon-the-seashore
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