David H W Grubb
So Once We Have Decided
So once we have decided that we are all living
in the sky, we are certain of this, definitions are
changed once and for all. There is no other view. This
is the way to be. It's all understood and what we once
regarded as permanent is but the brushwork of dreams.
Where do we go from here? Indeed. And where are we
to establish ourselves in sky? The obsolete items are
falling through space along with planets and atoms and
what we have achieved is total access. There is
no longer need to establish a God or sense of
HIM. There is no setting out from here. Notion
upon notion has become particle. Sleep and dancing
is necessary still, of course, and the ability to
express the inexpressible. Once there were trees and
tracks between and the movement of humans and their
quest for ideas. Once there were zoos and cathedrals
and other institutions that made a meaning within.
Now we can concentrate on what really matters
but it never actually occurs. The fact is that fact
is fiction and what we regarded as truth was
always a translation. The angels are out on
the fields of eternity again and who are we
to interpret their wisdoms? What we get is
the initial, the primary, the idea before
it has found a voice or hand or action.
What does it mean for the past, you ask?
Well, who are you and would you hear us even
if we did spill the beans? Now all life
is pure energy, a voice before it has said.
Living in the sky, we are certain of this.
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