Harmony & Waves
We run on grandiose waves and beats of life
Each of us unique and on different frequencies
What yields from the fourier transform of life?
That we are but a combination of fundamental frequencies.
For brief periods of time our lives, time, and space overlap.
Worlds collide and intersect to make that happen, and where love is great.
Frequencies aligned, resonance, harmonics and beats, that sort.
Some waves meet so grandiosely with a fervour and passion so great, it'll make even the gates of heaven shake. But just as quickly to dissipate.
And then some waves will meet again, to beat again, while some others just grow into an insurmountable gap, never to meet again.
Maybe our pursuit of life is to harmonize, and resonate, though if we are but unique, what resonant combination could we possibly await?
We are but a bunch of waves. A rythym. A beat. A pulse.
To harmonize is perhaps god's grace.
AFTERWORD
The poem is a reflection of my thinking - a combination of analytical/technical ideas with expressive/dramatic ideas.
Some concepts used: Fourier Transform, Beat Frequencies, Resonant Vibrations, and Wave-Particle Duality.
The poem was inspired by a fascination for the nature of chance encounters, long distance friendships, romantic infatuations and the most peculiar of all, love. The moment when inspiration struck had been when I had a strong longing, lament, and a feeling of missing a friend who I met so briefly but may not see them again for a long time to come, and considering how far apart people can grow, crazy to think about how many things had to go just right, for us to be able to meet and even share that brief period of our lives together.
“Some waves meet so grandiosely with a fervour and passion so great, it'll make even the gates of heaven shake.” Before giving my explanation, do share what your understanding of it has been! Very curious to know other’s perspectives. MY IDEA: everything in life - people, buildings - oscillate and have a characteristic frequency where another wave of the same frequency can make the amplitude of the wave larger like shaking, breaking a glass with just your voice, Taipei 101 tuned mass damper, etc. - resonance! If heaven had a natural frequency, and if two people had a love so strong that it’s almost heaven like and can cause the gates of heaven to shake due to resonance (all the way from Earth) - that is the idea I wanted to use to express the greatest kind of love there just may be. I imagine God seeing the gates shake going like ‘Huh that’s possible? They can do that?’
