Mass

there are numbers so large they cannot be named

spots so blind you can't know they exist

things so heavy they weigh more than "existence"

faces so pretty they can't ever be named

and memories so dead it's like they never even happened

Reviews

[AllenS]

Some experiences cannot be captured, I hear you. I took a trail to a certain overlook I thereto fore had never viewed. Reaching the top a scene unfolded that left me breathless, unable to articulate my discovery. My response was immediate. Looking to the heavens I bellowed, "THANK YOU!" Thank you for reminding me of such profundity.

[Davidgeo]

I discovered this in a very similar fashion, while on a trek up a mountain I had never been up before. It was a very foreign but, very enjoyable experience and has lead me to believe that there is far more to the whole of "reality/existence" than we have evolved to experience as a species. I'm glad someone else here identifies with this feeling, before this pretty much only dorky physicists and weirdo mathematicians ever took me seriously when I brought this topic up.

[AllenS]

Beyond the beyond
Lies more
Within the within
Lies more
Infinite reality
Boundless
No words

[Cherrie Palmer]

It's true our language falls short in exressing the true levels of beauty. As linguists searches for words. I think children have a much better voice for such things.
I especially liked the closing line. I have a fact or two that belongs to me but the memories of it are gone forever lost.

[Davidgeo]

Even the sights that we are able to see fall short of what's truly out there. Physically speaking, we can only visually see a small fraction of the light spectrum. All those pictures of stars and deep space are not actually what they appear to be... it's all false color shifted to the visual spectrum. The analogy of using different notes for recreating the same song works quite well for those pictures.... only the actual "songs" are mathematical representations of things we quite simply are not physically equipped to visualize at all given the spectrum of light our eyes and visual cortex's have evolved to physically detect and mentally visualize in. And I think you're right about kids in general... they are fundamentally more creative than most adults I think. Thanks for stopping by with an interesting comment.

[Cherrie Palmer]

Yes, what we don't know clearly outweighs what we do.