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Entry: Five Square Inches Nov 23, 2003

Have spent this entire weekend in launguorous wakefulness - drifted in and out of this world and my own - the one in my head. Somewhere these words came to me, again, caveat: this is NOT a poem, just a few lines strung together that make sense only to me, so don't read too much into it and assign it any more profoundness than it does (not?) have!

And here we go
five square inches of space
five square inches
too far
five square inches
too little
between you and I
Craving space
Denying space
Somehow in between worlds
we live...

And they tell me
you're close to closing in
and closing up

and closing down

And I am thinking
well, if the last chair
is taken
I'd still be standing
five square inches
too far
five square inches
from you

Would you then give me
an eye for my eye
and a mouth for my own
Some salvation
maybe a little eternity?
Would you then let me
fire your mystery?

24 comments


	Lone Cypress November 25, 2003 04:41 AM PST Hey babe, yup as long as we leave the sex out, you and I can STILL be together!! :) Canoodling, hugging, I like!! Maybe a teensy weensy little kiss too from that luscious pouty mouth of yours too, baby?? :)


	Driftwood November 25, 2003 03:39 AM PST Oh no, it doesn't. Sex isn't part of the bargain at all, between you and me. Canoodling is. Hugging like there is no tomorrow is. And as far as sex is concerned, we'll maintain the five square inches space APART. Looking away from each other. LOL. Couldn't resist that :).


	Lone Cypress November 25, 2003 01:39 AM PST Nish, will do - sometime late today evening-ish.


	Lone Cypress November 25, 2003 01:19 AM PST Maddie, that DOES mean effectively that at least ONE of us will have to change our sex, doesn't it?? Since I have not YET turned into a lesbian (I like men too much! ;) ), that leaves you, honey! But some little bird tells me you are not too eager to become a man either!! Ha ha, now we ARE in deep shit! But made for each other? Yeah baby, anyday!! Are you kidding me here?! OF COURSE I luuuurve you baaabeey! :)


	nish November 25, 2003 12:44 AM PST Call anytime.


	Driftwood November 24, 2003 11:07 PM PST Like I said. Love you too grin. We ARE made for each other, love. Ignore it if you will biiiig grin.


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 10:50 PM PST That is ALL I meant - exactly what you said. That sometimes five square inches is too little space when it comes to somebody you are trying to disassociate yourself from, and sometimes the very same five square inches of space is too much space apart from the one with whom you crave togetherness. That's all. No more no less. Also, because I went through the exact two situations the past week - dealing with space in both cases with two different individuals. And was left frustrated - only because the five square inches of togetherness or distance if you will were switched around with the two people. Misplaced.


	Driftwood November 24, 2003 10:46 PM PST Yeah, love you too :).


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 10:42 PM PST DANG!!!! FINALLY!!! Somebody gets it!!! Thank you Drfitwood, thank you! I had people emailing and sms-ing me asking me what it was about - because they felt that perhaps it was really personal and close to my heart and all that. And nobody left a comment because they didn't want to intrude!


	Driftwood November 24, 2003 10:27 PM PST I feel ashamed about myself that I churn out such low grade drivel and you write such brain numbing heart stopping poetry :-). Sometimes, these five square inches can mean a world of space. And sometimes, (And I will be danged if it ain't true), it can mean a world of space. Apart.


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 08:54 PM PST Kandyman, on a more serious note, I agree in a very abstract way that approximations involve singularities, that's because in arriving at an approximation, you would have had to go through the entire consideration set of variables, isn't it? I've forgotten most of my dynamic programming, but oh well... As for tapping into the silence within, well, the silence within does have all the answers - most of the time we don't quieten ourselves enuff to listen to it. "Knowing" is a better state to be in than to choose to analyse or "figure it out". The deepest truths come from the "knowing" within - ask me to justify most of the learnings I have re life, and I won't be able to. I don't have the schematics for it, but I know it to be true from my inner knowing! Knowing ALWAYS ends in singularities - of that there is no doubt.


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 08:43 PM PST K_Man: One hint, one allegation, and one covert suggestion, and like a full-blooded man, you rise to the occasion? ;) K_Man, I said you need to get laid, I don't STILL see where I advertised my own candidacy for the same! :)


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 08:39 PM PST Srik, yes I think you hit it - singularity of thought that brought us all together in the first place and then here!! He he - somebody's a wee bit older today!! Happy budday kid!! :)


	Lone Cypress November 24, 2003 08:36 PM PST Nish, the Gods MUST be conspiring to keep us apart, wot can I say? :) Maybe the universe does not approve of the union of two such brilliant souls as us! On a more serious note, my SIM has deregistered itself!! Yeah, tell me about it! Thanks babe for the ghar ka number! Investing soooo much of instant trust in a female who could turn out to be a virtual psychopath, for all you know, my friend!! :) Or who could sell your number to spammers galore! :) Naah, will call you - lemme know when's a good time? :)


	K_Man November 24, 2003 06:08 PM PST lol what brought me here was she said I needed to get laid :)


	srik November 24, 2003 11:36 AM PST i mean the singular thought that you, me, and m have had which has brought us here to discuss it.


	K_Man November 24, 2003 11:17 AM PST woo, if there's one thing that isn't a singularity it is the thought. Singularties only occur in equations when you are trying to theorize existance. To theorize is to approximate, and in approximations singularities exist. If you can tap into the silence within you, there is a source of answers. You can choose to be knowing or you can choose to analyze or figure out. You know which one ends in singularities.


	srik November 24, 2003 09:12 AM PST the only singularity is the thought.


	nish November 24, 2003 08:25 AM PST harrehhhhh byaeeebeeeeee, what is this happening, men? Your number also saying not existing, wot. Unbelievable, men. Haiyoh, now what to do? Hmmmmm. I'll email you my ghar ka number.


	Lone Cypress November 23, 2003 11:46 PM PST Gosh, you surprise me sometimes, you know me so well!! Its as if you had seen me in flesh and blood! :) I am very restless, and impatient by nature, Makes you wonder that the most meaningful relationships sometimes don't need to exist on the physical plane at all.


	srik November 23, 2003 11:19 PM PST if the last chair is taken, i will offer mine :)..i dont like sitting down anyway..i dont think you do either, do you?


	Lone Cypress November 23, 2003 11:10 PM PST Lest you not be hurt by the above comment, Morph, what I meant was this: "looking away because we can't stand to look at ourselves, and we are not ready to look at each other yet, in all our nakedness and misery and vulnerability."


	Lone Cypress November 23, 2003 07:22 PM PST Looking away my friend, looking away...


	Pleomorphous November 23, 2003 08:37 AM PST Five square inches form a window to your world. Five square inches form a window to my world. Are we looking at each other? Or are we looking away?

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