​What is Loss? by Rose Mary Boehm

Photography by Mohamed Nohassi (Morocco) contemporary

​What is Loss?

I was a kid. I curved space before I knew of Einstein. We now see billions of galaxies, and billions more we can’t yet see. And then some.

How can anyone imagine eternity?

And then there is the first law of thermodynamics. And then there was the famous physicist who sighed and said: Perhaps, at the beginning, there was just an idea. And then there is John 1:1—In the beginning was the Word… And then there is quantum mechanics.
 
How can anyone imagine eternity?
 
Can anything come from absolute nothing? What has always been and will always be, is that its own eternity? Serious cosmologists, philosophers, and physicist are beginning to suggest that ALL IS CONSCIOUSNESS, that there is nothing but consciousness, that we and all creation are three-dimensional expressions of consciousness.
 
We come and we go, like the waves of the oceans, like the waters of the rivers, like the highest mountains and the deepest caves, like the Pleiades and the supernovas, like the atoms, the quarks, the electrons, Like thoughts, like prayer, like song…
 
And we can never be lost.

Rose Mary Boehm
 
Rose Mary Boehm is a German-born British national living and writing in Lima, Peru, and author of two novels as well as seven poetry collections. Her poetry has been published widely in mostly US poetry reviews (online and print). She was twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize, once for the Best of Net. Her latest: Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders? (Kelsay Books July 2022), Whistling in the Dark (Cyberwit July 2022), and Saudade (December 2022) are available on Amazon. A new collection, Life Stuff, has been scheduled by Kelsay Books for February 2024. https://www.rose-mary-boehm-poet.com/