Prayer

Prayer

2001 - Imishli, Azerbaijan

jp melville

unknowable, infinite

humble, compassionate

love

Of all emotions, thought,

Anger, desire, happiness, envy, melancholy, or more

Logic, madness, memory, or more

Nothing but what is unknown

Nothing but what is infinite

Is absolute,

Which is the philosophy of mathematics, or physics,

The only reason, the only truth

Of any science.

Only the unknown and the infinite give perspective

To what we feel

To what we see

To what we believe,

By balancing what we experience

With the knowledge that our experience is not absolute,

With knowing that there is always something more,

That for every step we take

The next is unimaginable,

Always one small step beyond consciousness.

Patience,

The effort to understand

And watch the ugly unfold as beautiful,

Allow that which differs from us gain respect,

Or to unfetter complexity and free the simple to blossom into wonder.

How? Why?

Who knows.

For we discover that there is no answer,

That the answers are infinite,

Each answer never known before its birth.

Yet in this paradox

Of no answer infinite answers

We are given awe, wonder, and the offer of submission,

Knowing that the answer has come, will come, is already here.

So, Humility,

All this running around

Seeking answers

Seeking truth

When these have arrived, are here, forever will be.

So, Compassion,

For all the others who struggle like ourselves.

And finally, Love,

To abandon self in compassion and humility.

Meaning that, in the end,

In reason there is only one true action.

Prayer.

Lord,

My Lord,

My only Lord.

God,

My God,

My only God.

Loving in abandon.