[MD] The Center

[MarshaV]

Platt,

To me this is intellectual activity at its most profound.

Marsha



At 11:31 AM 5/23/2006, Platt wrote:
>The Center
>
>You don't see it so much as feel it
>When a baby smiles
>The wind blows hard
>A lover touches your fingertips
>
>You know it's there in
>The velvety darkness of a starry night
>The soft pedals of a rosebud
>The light cast by a child's eyes.
>
>You feel it all around
>There in a melody
>Over there, in a crashing wave
>Over there, where puppies play in the sunshine.
>
>You want to grasp and hold it, but it stays elusive
>Avoiding labels and categories
>Avoiding reason and rhetoric
>Avoiding every trick of thought.
>
>You try to understand it, but are confused
>Because a church says it is this
>And a philosopher says it is that
>And your closest friend won't say much about it at all.
>
>You see it captured sometimes in a work of art
>Framed by soft colors and strong brushstrokes
>Or expressed in the lilt of a song
>Or projected from the footlights of a stage.
>
>You know it has a center somewhere, a source, a point
> >From which it spreads out like light
>Radiant and warm
>Casting outward beyond the stars.
>
>You hear it called God, or a higher power, or a Buddha
>Which is like defining it as X
>An unknown quantity
>The indefinable " It."
>
>And when I look at you, deep
>It is there, the center and the light
>The flow of promises never fulfilled, never quite reached
>The seam of reality and delight, beyond grasp forever.
>
>Platt
>
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