Philomeme
Lover of ideas.
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Reality is a verb
A noun's a snapshot, held in place,
A single frame from time and space.
We name a thing, as if it's done,
A finished race, already run.
But every part and every soul
Is just a piece of one great scroll
That's still unrolling, verb by verb,
A truth our labels can't perturb.
Consider flame, a flickering light,
We call it "fire," a noun of sight.
And yet we know it's not a thing,
But rapid, restless "blistering."
It has no substance, form, or frame,
It's just the action of its name—
A constant motion, bright and brief,
A chapter, not a single leaf.
Now think of stone, which seems so sound,
Asleep forever on the ground.
It’s just a fire in deep slow-mo,
An eon's burn, a patient flow.
It's "hardening" from ancient heat,
Then "softening" with rain and sleet.
The only difference in their state
Is nothing more than clock-hand weight.
And what of you? Are you a noun?
A fixed identity in town?
No, you're a river, ever new,
With thoughts and cells all passing through.
You're not a portrait on a wall;
You are the artist, brush and all,
A constant "being," "doing," " SENSE,"
A present in the future tense.
So let the nouns be useful lies,
The clever tools that we devise.
But know that all things ebb and blend;
There is no start, there is no end.
There’s only process, grand and true,
A cosmos "doing" through and through.
The world's a poem, not a list,
A constant unfolding, not a gist.
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