An Apparent Seam
Thomas M. Scott 1948 (United States)
“An Apparent Seam”
(Born from a David Whyte Poem-Lyric and the Passing of Prof. Dieter Georgi)
“An apparent seam between here and there grows more faint every day. One day it will completely disappear and by then, all of us would have come to realize that it was never really there in the first place. That seam is quite like time, ‘a child of the mind, something we create at birth and then harden into days that we then look back on’. That seam between here and there will, one day, seem so unseemly! And we will wonder whatever could have possessed us to create such a thing in our minds in the first place.
By then, too, we would have all realized that we have come here in order to create. Create, among other things, a seam to come to know ‘the pain of too much tenderness’, to know an aloneness that only fear can create, to create a division between our angel-selves and our human-selves, to come to the understanding that ‘I’m so glad, I’m so glad that trouble don’t las’ always’.
An apparent seam between here and there grows more faint every day. One day it will completely disappear and by then, all of us, would have come to realize that it was never really there in the first place.”
Thomas M. Scott, Th. D. March 4, 2005
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This poem was written on Friday, March 5, 2005 upon my learning that Prof. Dieter Georgi had passed out of this life on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany . . .
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