Oct 2016
"NOT ALL PEOPLE EXIST IN THE SAME NOW. . ."
( for brother Brian )
your smile
like music for a movie
that will never be made
you travel through
your life, now:
unable to arrive at the present
you no longer
live in the now
that I inhabit
this my great grief
life, but:
life without you
Death has taken you
slammed the door
in my face
me left here
you in an other
place
you have left the planet
somehow escaped Time's prison
a new day dawns without you in it
remembering how you
relished Block's words that
"NOT ALL PEOPLE EXIST
IN THE SAME NOW. . ."
applying the statement to
whatever happening
happened to be happening
your smile
like music for a movie
that can never be made
( for brother Brian )
your smile
like music for a movie
that will never be made
you travel through
your life, now:
unable to arrive at the present
you no longer
live in the now
that I inhabit
this my great grief
life, but:
life without you
Death has taken you
slammed the door
in my face
me left here
you in an other
place
you have left the planet
somehow escaped Time's prison
a new day dawns without you in it
remembering how you
relished Block's words that
"NOT ALL PEOPLE EXIST
IN THE SAME NOW. . ."
applying the statement to
whatever happening
happened to be happening
your smile
like music for a movie
that can never be made
"Not all people exist in the same Now."
Ernest Bloch in his 1935 Heritage of our Times(Erbschaft dieser Zeit ).
"Not all people exist in the same Now. They do so only externally, by virtue of the fact that they may all be seen today. But that does not mean that they are living at the same time with others. Rather, they carry earlier things with them, things which are intricately involved. One has one's times according to where one stands corporeally. . . times older than the present continue to effect older strata; here it is easy to return or dream one's way back to older times. . .in general, different years resound in the one that has just been recorded and prevails. Moreover, they do not emerge in a hidden way as previously but rather, they contradict the Now in a very peculiar way, awry, from the rear. . .many earlier forces, from quite a different Below, are beginning to slip between."
Ernest Bloch in his 1935 Heritage of our Times(Erbschaft dieser Zeit ).
"Not all people exist in the same Now. They do so only externally, by virtue of the fact that they may all be seen today. But that does not mean that they are living at the same time with others. Rather, they carry earlier things with them, things which are intricately involved. One has one's times according to where one stands corporeally. . . times older than the present continue to effect older strata; here it is easy to return or dream one's way back to older times. . .in general, different years resound in the one that has just been recorded and prevails. Moreover, they do not emerge in a hidden way as previously but rather, they contradict the Now in a very peculiar way, awry, from the rear. . .many earlier forces, from quite a different Below, are beginning to slip between."
