The concrete is visible, <br />the abstract is invisible. <br />The concrete is the outside, <br />the abstract is the inside. <br />The concrete is objective, <br />the abstract is subjective. <br /> <br />People go on searching for <br />God in the concrete. <br />'We would like to see God' <br />-they say. <br /> <br />But only the concrete can be seen; <br />the abstract has to be felt. <br />The concrete can be seen- <br />with the eyes open, <br />the abstract has to be seen- <br />with eyes closed. <br /> <br />God is inside you, as you. <br />You cannot stand outside God <br />and see Him; <br />you can see Him <br />only from the inside- <br />by being Him. <br /> <br />If you see a flower, <br />you can look at it scientifically. <br />You look at the chemistry of it, <br />You dissect it and <br />you come to know <br />about the components of it. <br /> <br />But something is missed <br />in that very analysis. <br />The beauty is missed, <br />because beauty is not a component. <br />If you ask the scientist - <br />'Where is the beauty that was in the flower? ’ he will say- <br />'That was not there, <br />it was just an illusion.' <br /> <br />'I have dissected it- <br />all and all, <br />and these are the things <br />that I have found. <br />These chemicals were there, <br />this matter was there, <br />these atoms, these molecules.... <br />but there was no beauty.' <br /> <br />But when the scientist <br />gives the flower to his wife, <br />he knows deep within his heart <br />he is not giving her <br />something chemical, <br />He is giving to her <br />the beauty of the flower. <br /> <br />A poet said - <br />'Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder', <br />But I say it lies in the heart of the lover. <br />That beauty is not be seen, <br />it has to be felt, <br />not from the outside, <br />but from the inside <br />by being the flower itself.<br /><br />Nazmul Haque<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-concrete-and-the-abstract/
