The Eternity of Dreams
I don’t write very often… only when I feel compelled to.
This was something overwhelming that I just had to write… it came from deep in my gut and heart.
I think about death probably more than most … it’s always been something that lingers in the back of my mind… coming to the foreground often.
Always unanswered questions…. questions that only I can answer with my own faith and soul truth.
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The quietus of our soul
No spirit that lingers… clinging to those past loved
No memory of our physical existence
No longer able to ponder the reality of our own unavoidable demise
For that demise is now
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No remnants of heartstrings tugged and pulled,
Emotions suppressed in all finality
No form of any consciousness
NOTHING.
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Is that what is to come?
Is an all encompassing nothingness our finality?
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Like falling into our nightly slumber without ever waking up
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Is sleep our ebony messenger angel giving us a taste of our eternity?
A glimpse of our soul’s everlasting endlessness?
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It’s so much a part of our lives already… like a mistress we see behind life’s back
It’s presence inevitable… as we lay, enveloped in a state of zero consciousness
Between the dream-time and the wake-time
there lies the dark knight of the void
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Is sleep death?
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Life’s tragic irony?
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Or perhaps our eternity will be the fantastical phantasms found within the dark.
The dreamlands travelled and explored on slumber safari’s.
The upside down, inside out, dreams to get lost in… where anything goes
The place where those once dead still thrive and survive
Where childhood friends often come to visit
Where sexual energy pulsates on a whole different level
Where our emotional truths are brought to the surface
The place where limitation is but a powerless word
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Oh what an eternity that would be!!
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That is where I put my faith
My religion is that of the faith in all possibility
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I believe in the eternity of my dreams!
Michael Scholl
Oh boy!!! You have the wheels in my head spinning now. I avoid this subject as much as possible an try to live in the “now.” I’m afraid when my eyes close for the last time…It is last time. Oh, Pip, this is beautiful!!!
Pip Gerard replied
I too try as much as possible to live in the moment because thinking about such things can send those wheels spinning too fast and too often… but every so often I just can’t help but ask the big questions. Especially since my brother’s death 10 years ago… the question’s came hard and fast and often. Since then… I’ve found I’ve either spent my time running from it or confronting it!!! :D I’m a bit of a thinker though…always have been. (probably think too much about deeper meanings at times… but it’s just part of my nature).
Thinking about it in the last decade… has just made me realise the importance of faith… of our own faith though… the faith in what feels right to our own souls and minds…
Pip Gerard replied
oh and thanks for your wonderful words… means so very much.
kimangeline
My religion is that of the faith in all possibility
I love that Pip…and I look forward to the amazing world of my dreams at night….this is wonderful writing :)
roy skogvold
lovely writing. Maybe you should do it more often :)
Lorna Gerard
Aaaah Pip this is beautifully written and thought provoking, and definatly one of the certainies in life is that we all die, and we don’t know when or how, so enjoying each moment and loving all those around us without conditions, and knowing we are loved and that there is hope and possibilites, far bigger than we can ever imagine. Thanks honey, you have the gift to write also.
BiographyofRed8
many things to ponder on and to get the brain wheels turning.. brilliantly written
Ushna Sardar
Mikyle
You’ve said perfectly what I have been trying to explain to others for ages –
“My religion is that of the faith in all possibility
I believe in the eternity of my dreams!”
An absolutely fantastic piece of writing.
Fascinatingly enough, I’ve been writing about death too the past two days! Really interesting. I came to the exact conclusions you have, but from my own perspective.
Life – what an amazing trip… x
Shoaib .
fantastic writing here pip, wow beautifully expressed
Pip Gerard replied
thank you so much.
Philosophy Lee
“My religion is that of the faith in all possibility
I believe in the eternity of my dreams!”
I believe in myself… religiously!
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Very good thinking and expression Pip Gerard.
:)
Emmahleee
Wow this is fantastic..
I would love to read more of your work
hsien-ku
very insightful and profound writing pip! wonderful to read
Helen Corr 20 days ago
this starts just as I always imagined death to be as a child – as an eternal nothingness, (I had a morbid fascination/fear of death up unitl about the age of 9 when my sister died, and then the reality of it made it too much to think about) but you have an answer I was too young to find …
Pip Gerard replied 19 days ago
It took me 25 years & the death of my brother to find my answer. Interesting, isn’t it… how the death of someone you love not only makes you grieve their loss but it also creates more fear and realisation of our own impending death (at least that’s what I found). And we want to ask the big questions cause we want to try and get answers for where they may be now and where we might end up. My heart truly believes that dreams are the answer and some kind of glimpse of life after death. Especially after one particular profound and extremely moving dream I had of my brother. Will have to wait and see though won’t we. :)