Poetry: The opposite of an opposite is an opposite too

Well, the obvious answer is just a little bit bigger than the Universe. My dad used to answer someone, when they rudely looked at his greying hair, and asked him how old he was now: "I am as old as my tongue, but just a little bit older than my teeth." Maybe this tongue of the Universe, or did you say tape, runs around it, lapping itself into itself, so that its teeth, that come later, will have something to bite onto/into too. If we are the teeth of the Universe, what is its tongue?

Thank-you. I am glad you liked my attempt at some poetry here.

Thanks, siva, for your opinion, here. In this dual world, this world of duality, everything has an opposite, so it must be true then that even the opposite of an opposite must have an opposite too, even if it hard to see what it is logically, or illogically. On the other hand, if the dual world is the illusion, nothing has an opposite, so the double negation of my statement would still then be true then too. The opposite of an opposite is of course only just itself. Do opposites attract? Maybe this too is just an illusion, for opposites are interconnectedly intertwined, and a part of each other anyway. Rather than attracting, we are just developing the eyes to be able to see what is really there as the opposite now, (when really, it was there all of the time) before we were blinded by only just seeing one side, sitting on that side for too long. We need to experience both sides of a duality to see the oneness of real truth that exists behind both sides.

@Shiva49 "I understand your reasoning Steve though it leads to more than what we are used to thinking and accepting." But isn't this exactly what we need right now? We will never get anywhere if we just stick with what we are used to thinking and accepting. Einstein knew this, when he said, "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." but perhaps, he was the only one that could really understand fully what he had said. Opposites are actually non-existent. They are theoretical extreme positions at either end of a continuing scale. The truth is we all exist, in our beliefs and very being, somewhere along the scale, which can be a sliding one for us, during our lives, as we move up and down of it too. Perhaps, only a total lunatic, would stick, or could stick, at the extreme point of either sides of an opposite.

@innertalks Maybe the supposed "lunatic' could turn out to be the next trailblazer, messiah, too opening our eyes to what we thought was plain lunacy. I also think we need to learn, unlearn, reboot some of our way of dealing with issues as they are passed on from one generation to another with increasing intensity. We need to rethink and nothing should be beyond the agenda "but not throw the baby out with the bathwater" - siva