Author: Reena Saxena

thoughts left aside
words deliverable
yet unspoken
become
all that
which is unknowable
connection remaining unattainable
when understanding remains hazy
in my purview

Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #215 – Unknowable & Unexplainable &
Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Hazy

I think of unknowable as being beyond the limits of human understanding.  Humans are curious creatures, and this curiosity drives us to search for explanations.  We feel that if we are able to understand things, that these explanations will give us some control over our lives.  Sometimes we invent things, so we can comprehend what is going on.  Take the Big Bang, which supposedly created our universe, and we theorize that this happened 13.8 billion years ago, when everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity.  At the moment of the Big Bang the density of the universe was so high that no information could escape from it.  Under these conditions all the laws of physics break down and therefore only a hypothesis of what happened is possible, as there is no physical evidence.  Scientists can use Math to explain what happened immediately…

PROMPT #215

The words to lead your piece for this week are

1. unknowable
2. unexplainable

???????????

Knowledge is the driving force of my mind
I need to know the logic behind all that I believe 
Even my faith has to satisfy my thirst for knowing 
What then is unknowable or unexplainable in my world?


Like the zen philosophers, I wouldn’t want to know
What serves no purpose in this world or the hereafter 
What I cannot comprehend because it is too big an idea
To fit into the confines of my tiny brain, remains unexplained 


Is this a paradox, a contradiction that I proclaim?
I call it a practical and pragmatic approach to learning 
I know what I need or want to know and strive for it
But what is hidden from my eyes and mind, remains 
An enigma, tantalizing and exciting, always in the distance

Written for RXC # 215…

…the dress hugged her body like a child to mother’s bosom, comforting every curve…
hair and makeup skillfully applied, grand masterpiece of illusion…

…emotion stood, enticing in streetlight halo, shroud draped and steadfast…
weeks of wear, broken blockade signals fear, knight in shining armor…

…deliverance offered, rescue shines, blinding blue…
secure in silent suffering… grand masterpiece of illusion