RINTRAH, THE DAVE, WROTE A SHORT POEM.
I went through agony, the past few days, and ecstasy. The Agones were Art Competitions in Ancient Greece. It Agon means “struggle” and it’s the root of English, “Agony.” I’ll endure any agony if it makes art like this. The Hanged Man Tarot Card willingly hangs himself on The Tree of Life. Then, The Inverted Hanged Man teaches what he learned. In this sense, he is the Sacrificial Lamb. It is The Artist’s labor pains. This poem goes in my book in progress, A QUEST THROUGH QUESTIONS OF TIME:
COSMIC THERAPY
“Is the whole world conspiring to make me mad?” I’ve said, some days
What if it does?
“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy,” Shakespeare’s Hamlet said, one day
What of the whole world is conspiring to heal me?
To heal us all
I think IT is
“For God so loved THE COSMOS . . . that THE COSMOS, through Him, might be saved”
“God so loved THE COSMOS . . . that whoever believes in Him should not kill themself, but have VITAL LIFE OF THE AEONS” (John 3:16,17).
Science says nothing
ABOUT THE GRAND DESIGN
Traditionally, my translation, “kill themself” is rendered, “perish.” The Greek, “apoletai” also means “to be killed,” as well as, “be destroyed.” Apoletai is that strange verb conjugation only in Greek, called a “middle verb.” Middle verbs are like French “reflexive verbs.” They mean you do it to or for yourself–i.e., “wash yourself;” “kill yourself.” Some language technicalities.
Traditionally, my “have VITAL LIFE OF THE AEONS,” is translated, “life everlasting.” The Greek has the word, “Zoe,” which means life. But Aeon also means “Vital Force,” and “eternal”–both at the same time. So it’s “life” and “vital force forever.”
One sees John’s clever word play between killing and life. In this case, the option is killing one’s self, or living by believing that there is a Source Of Vital Life. One seizes the “bare bodkin” or the dagger Hamlet was pondering suicide with; or one seizes The Vital Life of The Aeons.
For the first time, I see how to use dry academic knowledge as and in poetry.
ENIGMATIC DR DAVE ENTERPRISES, PRELUDED
David Fekete 