A music prose
Für Marianne

I saw you and Justus from afar through Line.  

In my evening in Iran, 

While fasting, rarefied in body and soul,

I was listening to Arvo Pärt’s “Für Anna Maria” album, 

And reading about the singularity of the events of our lives—

--Like seeing your beautiful faces in this morning of yours, 

The universality of love and eternity of existence in this singular event: seeing your faces, you and Justus, 

Which inscribed deep emotions in my heart in ecstatic tears.

  

And I was reading about Derrida’s “Typewriter’s Ribbon”—

--And thinking about the glitch of time: the emergence of general concept in understanding singular events of life, and bringing them back to life--

Like through writing these words and poetry—

--The relation between the singularity of event and its repeatability and-- 

How in this morning of yours, I saw and experienced your unique faces, which brought me deeper back to life, 

And the experience of universality and eternity of this event,

And the godlike emergence of the primordial compassion—

That which is wrongfully called ‘repetition’. 

 

It reminded me of when Hellen Keller experienced affection and compassion for the first time, 

When for the first time she understood that two singular experience of ‘water’ are the Same living word/thing ‘water’. 

 

If we are able to understand the minimalist repetition of Arvo Pärt’s movements, 

It is not because they are machinelike inscription of moments on a typewriters’ ribbon, 

But because they are eternal and—

In this morning of yours, I experienced the event of eternity—

By seeing your beautiful faces from afar in the very singularity of event.  

And it will remain with me in words and thoughts and emotions—

Even when I talk about them in past tense.  

It is our human condition that we lose sight of the eternal in the event of love, 

And strive for its repetition.  

This was the reason I told you, “I want to watch you like this for the rest of day.”  

To repeat your singular existence, beauty, compassion, and love—

Till Eternity as Eternity.