What is Dying?

A ship sails and I stand watching
till she fades on the horizon,
and someone at my side
says, "She is gone".

Gone where? Gone from my sight,
that is all; she is just as
large as when I saw her...
the diminished size and total
loss of sight is in me, not in her.

And just at the moment
when someone at my side
says "she is gone", there are others
who are watching her coming,
and other voices take up the glad shout,
"there she comes!" ......and that is dying.

Charles H. Brent 1862 - 1929


Gewoon mooi en vol van hoop.
Vooral de zin: 'the diminised size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her.
Wat zegt het nu eigelijk: wat wij zien of ervaren? Daar kunnen we de werkelijkheid toch niet aan afmeten.