-- INSIDE ETERNITY --

John Herlihy

Come with me on a miraculous journey,

That will prove to be but one of a kind.

A sea voyage into the realm of eternity,

On a shoreless ocean beyond the mind.

Imagine tidal eternity, a moment unspun,

Unbounded by any limits of day and night.

Fathomless ocean of infinite drops wrung,

Time serves eternity as white serves light.

The present is but one moment soon past;

The past never claims as a moment at all.

Future a bud whose bloom will never last;

Time moves forward and will not ever stall.

We know what time is and what it is not;

Measured moments we count on a clock.

Eternity the moments never to be caught,

Never measured by a relentless tick-tock.

An eternal moment outstrips endless time,

A door in the sky opening into infinite light.

Lending a sacred insight I can claim as mine,

Gone forever images of deep space as night.

We come at last to a mysterious variance;

What may time seek and where is it going?

It seems to exist as a form of compliance,

To probe mystery with insights of knowing.

Eternity a bubble, there as perfect sphere,

Fragile, sightless, perfectly shaped whole.

Mysterious, oh so distant, but always near,

Defining the universe and its visionary soul.

Death but a moment with no future or past,

The one final moment as most truly human.

With death finally done, our soul will outlast,

All the ages of time with its precise acumen.

We need to live in the moment, not pretend;

Do not wonder too much, no need to foresee.

Focus on the moment, with time to contend;

Eternity is always present, just let eternity be.

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(c) John Herlihy 3 March 2019