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Tasting Eternity

By Nolo Segundo

Tasting Eternity

My old friend and I went to a restaurant for lunch,
a ramshackle little place, but my friend told me
the food was great -- and it was! Three different
chicken curries, a lovely lamb curry, and a half-
dozen veggies, and mango drinks to wash it down.

I suppose we visited the buffet more times than we
should have but we were talking philosophy as we
always did when we got together and speaking of
God and the soul and the meaning of life really
can make you hungry -- then my friend said he
believed in God but had trouble with Eternity --
it seemed scary, terrifying even to think of time
going on forever, endlessly, a road never ending.

I laughed a little, then smiled at my old friend --
‘THIS is eternity! ‘ I told him, ‘Right now, this
moment as we eat this delicious curry and try
to figure out the meaning of our existence’.
I swallowed a mouthful of lamb korma and
laughed again -- ‘wherever we exist is eternity,
and we always exist somewhere, and time is
an illusion, time does not exist, except as a
moment’-- And the next moment, I asked him
if he had room for the rice pudding ...







Article © Nolo Segundo. All rights reserved.
Published on 2022-09-12
Image(s) are public domain.
1 Reader Comments
Sandra Fox Murphy
11/08/2023
10:10:28 AM
I love this piece! It's all the colors, all the senses in a broth, and stirred with pure being. (I might try to find a way to print and frame it and hang it on my wall ... like my mantra!). I'm inspired by your work and that, like me, you started late in life. I published my first novel at 66; now I'm finishing my sixth novel and, once done, all I want to write it poetry (and that circles back to that beautiful Orange-and-God poem you wrote).
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