(Strange) Attraction

Attraction-

1. It is a longsome, strong and strange force:

-           It is longsome because it covers all space.

-           It is strong because it forms the bond of love.

-           It is also strange as the lovers say they have never felt like this before.

(But then they act as if they will never meet again.)

The hunter

2. But it is more like the hunter and the prey. It is a game which surpasses by far the instinct of survival. We always enjoy to hear our victim beg and pray, to bring our subject down to its knees. It is not that we suffer from some kind of disorder or that we are predisposed with incurable perversity. It is just the way nature works, as we always fill up hunger with some pleasure. It’s like playing a game of cat and mouse, thus the meaning of the name.   

The forest

3. The forest is always thick and shadowy, as we have to avoid the huge trunks which impose their stature against our fragile silhouettes. It represents the landscape which may offer us the ultimate protection- against all those haunting memories which come about like nocturnal birds lurking behind the branches. Nobody’s chasing us, we are just the hunters and the victims of ourselves- once again finding ourselves in remote and unbearable emptiness. The trunks stand out against our own presence. 

The wall

4. But at the same time the trunks support our thoughts, our beliefs, our whole foundation. No matter if they are made of wood or bricks, they can always be dissolved into the fundamental particles which constitute those imperceptible aspects of our true existence- naked, without the hunter’s uniform or the lover’s pretentious and unpredicted moves. The gun the hunter holds will never go off- it is not meant to kill, it’s worn just as a complement to all those threats and gestures, and the rest of vile puns and despicable maneuvers. All the things which make us so susceptible to love.  

The force of gravity

5. Ah! Now back to the classroom… Yes, it’s a force and it consists of particles, the same with those in the human body, fluctuating with similar vibrations as those corresponding to the emotions of the human soul, also to the frequencies at which the human mind performs and composes the background of our tremendous thoughts. It is a force inversely proportional to the square of the distance- but has that yet explained the secret action of all the things we long for?  

Superposition

6. Now let’s make a step forward to take a look at the other side behind the wall. As we have already suspected there is no fundamental difference at the smallest, intimate, scale between the hunter’s feelings and the victim’s trembling heart, as they are both entangled in the cosmic chase, with the fine- tuning between the object and the mind, hunger and lust, love and gravity (the haunted and the ghost), whether the circle is formed inside a lake or a bedroom, or if the circle incorporates the whole universe, as it revolves, again and again, around the same meaning-

The hunter’s hand will penetrate us 

It will rip apart our body

Purifying our thought

Leaving our heart transparent

Transferring us to another world

Having us utter a melodic sound

Making us spell the magic word

Often cited by the learned people

But unspeakable and unheard of

Only accessible to native speakers.  

 

5/17/2016

Painting: Universal gravitation, Rene Magritte