Intangible Objects
By Cosmic Cairns on April 11, 2024 1:08 am
I was just thinking about intangible objects and how crazy it is that there are things that exist that we possibly can't see or touch or sense at all but they're real. Lots of stuff falls into this category whether it's something like a cloud we can see but can't really touch, or something like time that we can't see or touch at all, or something like love that we also can't see or touch but we experience nonetheless and in a different way than time. Some of this stuff has major impacts on our lives even if in some sense they might be invented by humans. It's actually a pretty big topic, I suppose, and I'm not trying to write a thesis about it or anything here. Just thinking about it a little bit.
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I can't pin down this nebulous feeling
I stare at the ceiling
And all of the things that really matter
Disperse and scatter
Like time and my mind, although I know them
Can't physically hold them
They impact me greatly but still they're just concepts
Intangible objects
And no matter what I unpeel
I'll never know what's for real
At least not for sure
Seems like there's so much beyond my senses
Sometimes I catch glimpses
Of other pathways I could have taken
When I awaken
From this hypnosis that I've been under
I'll sit and wonder
About the essence of all that's around me
Still it confounds me
And no matter what I unveil
It always feels like I've failed
To see the truth
Someday I'll hold clouds and walk on a rainbow
Wherever it goes
I'll paint a portrait in the likeness of sadness
Love hate and madness
Photograph a song, display it on a wall
In a museum hall
I'll understand the blueprints of space
And heavenly grace
And now way off in the distance
Another existence
Comes into view
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