GEOMETRY

Logic can only go so far --

	after that I must see-perceive-imagine.

This geometry can help.



I may reason logically thru theorem

		and propositions galore,

	but only what I perceive is real.



If after studying I am not changed --

	if after studying I still see the same --

		then all has gone for naught.



Geometry is to open up my mind

	so I may see what has always	

				been behind

		the illusions that time

			and space construct.



Space isn't made of point and line

	the points and lines are in the mind.

The physicists see space as curved

	with particles that are quite blurred.

And, when I draw, everything is fat

	there are no points and that is that.

The artists and the dreamer knows

	that space is where an image grows.

For me it's a sea in which I swim

	a formless sea of hope and whim.



Thru my fear of Infinity and One

	I structure space to confine

		my imagination away from the idea

			that all is One.



But, I can from this trap escape --

	I can see the geometry in which I wander

	as but a structure I made to ponder.



I can dare to let go the structures 

			and my fears

		and look beyond

	to see what is always there to see.



But, to let go, I must first grab on.

	Geometry is both the grabbing on

		and the letting go.

It is a logical structure

		and a perceived meaning --

	Q.E.D.'s and "Oh! I see!"'s.

It is formal abstractions

	and beautiful contraptions.

It is talking precisely about that

	which we know only fuzzily.

But, in the end, and, most of all,

	it is seeing-perceiving

		the meaning that

			I AM.



			-- David Henderson, 1978