FINITE & INFINITE II

The Infinite inside the Finite

Some eyes can see the invisible

And the invisible is everywhere

Within the visible.

Eyes as small as a grain of dust

Big as the mountains’ heart

Transparent as the sky’s face.

Where the soul goes the eyes go along

They are what they see within and beyond

They find the whole in the part and return it to the soul.

Those eyes live everywhere

Cross time, find no boundaries

Sowing the ground with seeds from the Sky

And the skies with seeds from Earth.

Those eyes see the beauty and the ugliness

Coexisting in the same nest of wonders.

Those are prepared to seek and find

To lose and regain.

Along the finite roads of the days

The infinite journey of life persists

Plural and diverse in each new or old road.

From within the roads are only one endless road.

In the next glance there’s always a new life

As old as the first that emerged from the first drop.

No matter how fleeting each moment may be

It will always be a glimpse of Infinite within life…

São Ludovino, 20/5/2020 (1/5/2021)

The Infinite inside the Finite - poem, photography & video by São Ludovino

FINITE & INFINITE I

The Finite inside the Infinite

Look, look so far and so near

You can see deep within

The horizon beyond

The heart of the world

And your immense finitude.

You don’t need to imagine the Infinite to be infinite

It’s right here before your eyes and within your soul

One atom here one atom there, endless chain of links

The Finite is the first kingdom of imagination

What you see and feel is what you imagine and more.

If you fall along the way, that’s not unusual

To fall is the first step to rise and follow ahead

The dust that steals momentarily a shiny ray of your will

Will soon reveal the strength of the fallen

Hear the rain that washes the path and clears the horizon.

Look, look so far and so near

You can see deep within

The horizon beyond

The heart of the world

And your immense finitude.

You don’t need to know the secrets

Of time, light and the abyss.

You don’t need more fear

Than the natural fear and wonder of the unknown.

A part of you also belongs to the wonder and the unknown.

You don’t need to know letter by letter

What science proclaimed yesterday

And denies today seeking tomorrow

The incomplete axiom of perpetual movement

The laws that failed to reveal the eternal unity between matter and spirit.

Look, look so far and so near

You can see deep within

The horizon beyond

The heart of the world

And your immense finitude.

Enigma by enigma, like flowers

Growing and withering in the same garden,

The truth of the days passes constantly by

In the air remains the perfume of infinite wisdom

In the soul a sense of renewed epiphany and mortality.

The finitude of all things

Is also the finitude of life and death.

If life is a constant change, follow the change.

In the tiniest glimpse of perfection and imperfection

Beauty reveals its bosom beyond all imagination.

Look, look so far and so near

You can see deep within

The horizon beyond

The heart of the world

And your immense finitude…

São Ludovino, 1/5/2021

The Finite inside the Infinite - poem, photography & video by São Ludovino