From A Further Distance

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“From A Distance”

From a distance
The world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance
The ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.

From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope,
it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man.

From a distance we all have enough,
And no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs,
And no disease,
No hungry mouths to feed.

From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope,
Playing songs of peace.

They’re the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.

From a distance you look like my friend,
Even though we are at war.
From a distance
I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for.

From a distance there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
And it’s the hope of hopes,
It’s the love of loves,
it’s the heart of every man.

It’s the hope of hopes,
Iit’s the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us,
God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us………. from a distance”

– Better Midler




From a further distance

This gets a little trippy

Beyond the above perspective

Making no matter what you do

Most importantly insignificant


Perspective

“B: the capacity to view things in their
true relations or relative importance”

M-W.com



While the above seems spot on

Is absolutely a global view to see

My tendency is to go a bit further



(Because like Tommy Shaw

Of Styx sang, I’ve got way, way

“Too Much Time On My Hands”)


“When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.”

– Dr Wayne Dyer



To the ridiculously sublime

By putting a long tethered

“You Are Here” icon above

Where you, me, they, are at

With that in mind, let’s go

To see things as they are

Beyond Bette Midler’s song

Looking from above or any

“Side” of the sphere will do

In any direction you choose

Assuming you are in your house

Staring at one of many screens

Thankfully reading this nonsense

(While wondering why one man

Is getting such endless “screen time”)

In the light or dark side of the earth

Rising above it all to see the neighborhood

With its streets and buildings

Cars parked or moving about

As it all gets smaller and smaller

Where you still “look like my friend”

Some milling anxiously about like

Ants on an ant farm seeking

Shelter, food and everything else

Above factories and fields for

Manufacturing consumables

And destroying beautiful land

Splattershot with various

Building offices and prisons

One in the same really

Hospitals and cemeteries

Airports and oceans

Snow capped mountains

Sprinkled in colorful

Coat covered corpses to

Seeing under the horizon

Russia and Ukraine

Setting off deadly fireworks

“Even though we are at war.
From a distance
I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for.”


Rising up or sinking below the moon

Keeping time with the tides

Feeling the warmth of the sun

Observing the planets in our

Neck of the woods of the Milky Way

Continuing on the trajectory of

“Eternal blackness beyond the stars (that)
We think our wisdom will get that far”

“If Eternity Should Fail”

– Iron Maiden


Only to pass other galaxies

So far away that finally the tethered

“You Are Here” sign starts getting small too

Looking oddly like

Mary Poppins with an umbrella

You slow and pause to reflect

How miniscule and tiny

What once was the earth as a speck

Followed by the Milky Way as a point

Then the cluster of galaxies as a dot

You realize that the myths of

Creation and the BIG BANG are just that

Myths (2B : an unfounded or false notion) – M-W.com

(3A : a thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence)

God is not an invisible man residing in heaven

For you would have passed “heaven” a long “time” ago

Recalling that one biblical nugget that God is the Word

(All words, making the perception of “reality” possible)

“In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:1 


And with that tiny dot floating in front of you

The glow of the next galaxy behind your back

You gasp at the miracle of your next breath

Then realize you just inhaled all of existence

Of which you, me, we and they are a part of apart of

A Further Distance



“I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we won’t ever understand, a higher order. Call it what you want. You know what I call it?

The big electron… the big electron. Woooohhhh, woooohhhh, woooohhhh. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is and so are we… for a little while”

– George Carlin

Also that Bill Hicks is right.

“It is just a ride”



“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”

– Angelo Devlin