Where is my soul

Where is my soul

A Poem by Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere
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What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room. Ray Charles

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Where then, can I find my soul?

Is it indissolubly connected with my life

or does it swim with my blood

in the flood through my veins?

 

What if I cut myself and lose a part?

 

Or do I have to search inside my head

in the sparkles between the synapses

along the axons and the dendrites?

 

And if I forget, one day

shall my soul also disappear?

 

Will I dissect my heart

slice pieces of it

watch them with a magnifying glass

if I can see all those feelings,

or if my joy is baked in the wall of it,

if I hear it on the beat all the tears and the sorrow?

 

What if my heart suddenly stops,

is this also the end of my soul?

 

Just to be sure I’ll go somewhat deeper

till I meet the smallest cell and then still a bit further,

maybe I see in my genes

why I’m afraid of death,

and frightened to live fully my life?

 

Can I read in my amino acids

What brings the day of tomorrow?

 

I’ve still so many ways to go,

so much to travel, stand still for a while,

so many questions which haunt my mind

why am I born in this body

why am I thinking this?

 

© Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

18/04/2015

© 2015 Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere


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I just 'discovered' this-- I quite like its tone, and some of the lines work very well: '...joy...baked.. in the wall', 'heart stops.. end of my soul'. And you posit a universal question that seems to afflict many: why do people fear both death and life?
I think I sense a certain hesitancy in your lines-- perhaps because English is your 2nd language (though you are more fluent than most native speakers). And I think it might have been interesting to start the poem with the last two lines, but maybe I'm wrong.
As a young man 45 years ago I 'experienced' my soul when I almost drowned and had what 's come to be known as an NDE, or near-death experience. (The curious thing is that the soul --when it's conscious of itself, exists in the moment, without beginning or end-- just as our 'mortal' consciousness does-- we can't remember being born so it seems like we've always been alive. Of course, we 'know' we're going to die, but who really believes that?

Posted 8 Years Ago


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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

8 Years Ago

Thank you for this review and your thought about 'the soul'. Means a great deal to me. :) Rudi



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I just 'discovered' this-- I quite like its tone, and some of the lines work very well: '...joy...baked.. in the wall', 'heart stops.. end of my soul'. And you posit a universal question that seems to afflict many: why do people fear both death and life?
I think I sense a certain hesitancy in your lines-- perhaps because English is your 2nd language (though you are more fluent than most native speakers). And I think it might have been interesting to start the poem with the last two lines, but maybe I'm wrong.
As a young man 45 years ago I 'experienced' my soul when I almost drowned and had what 's come to be known as an NDE, or near-death experience. (The curious thing is that the soul --when it's conscious of itself, exists in the moment, without beginning or end-- just as our 'mortal' consciousness does-- we can't remember being born so it seems like we've always been alive. Of course, we 'know' we're going to die, but who really believes that?

Posted 8 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

8 Years Ago

Thank you for this review and your thought about 'the soul'. Means a great deal to me. :) Rudi
I believe this is one of your finest. Bravo! The introspection is made modest in the face of those monumental questions. There is a serene humility in this powerful poem.

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you, Delmar, for reading an reviewing. Glad you liked it, really appreciated. :) Rudi
You have asked questions that leave me wondering...what is a soul? Quite thought provoking and so very well written Rudi. It is always a pleasure to read you.

:) Julie

Posted 9 Years Ago


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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thanks for the nice comment. Have a good day, Julie. :) Rudi
Just to be sure I’ll go somewhat deeper
till I meet the smallest cell and then still a bit further,
maybe I see in my genes
why I’m afraid of death,
and frightened to live fully my life?

The poem is really Great and made me also asked to myself about those questions. Well done ^_^

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you, Ashadan, my poem has served his purpose if it made you thinking. Have a excellent day. :).. read more
Ashadan

9 Years Ago

You too, Be well =)
Rudi,very thought provking.
And written in a fabulous manner!
I really like it!

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you very much, Mirab, glad you like it. :) Rudi
I really enjoyed this. Normally with the technical, fancy words such as amino acids and dendrites and synapses, etc, would turn me off to a poem like this. I'm intelligent, but I don't have a broad vocabulary as I wish I did. However, this time it didn't harm my liking. I was able to understand and follow along as if I knew what they meant. I still felt the wonder behind your words, and followed the flow. It's definitely a piece that makes you think; no one knows what the soul really is. It is one of those questions that everyone asks at some point in their life. Very nice read, Rudi, thank you for sharing :)

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you for this great review, RiverRei. Glad you liked this one too. Have a good day. :) Rudi
This is wonderful. One of your best. Thoughtful and beautifully written. Although you look deeper and deeper perchance you look in the wrong direction. Have you tried looking in all the space surrounding and in between matter, particles and throbbing force fields?

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

I've given so many ideas for where to look, I think I'll be busy for the rest of my life. Thank you .. read more
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Love it

Your soul is in your hands

I believe so

Beautiful piece

I like how you play with your soul's presence ..... like a little child

Utterly playful and happy

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

Thank you so much, Nisreena. :) Rudi
very good Rudi, 'who am I' keep asking yourself that one in meditation the results if done properly can be outstanding but that's a long road to go down, i once read a book that defined the soul as an atom called the Nous atom which exists in the heart and upon death of the body you will weigh a fraction less than before death as the atom has departed, can't say i subscribe to that view but it was interesting, for me the soul is equivalent to the sub-conscious as the ego is equal to the consciousness, they are our personal God and Devil, one strives for us to search within the other strives for us to seek out the world, possessions and the like, an inspiring write my friend :)

Posted 9 Years Ago


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R Smith

9 Years Ago

yes Rudi a great idea with as you say just one slight drawback, best just wait till your gone i'm su.. read more
Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

I look at my weight every week and the last months I've won a lot of soul I think (I only say this b.. read more
R Smith

9 Years Ago

haha yep I know that story very well :D
a soul is that place in your heart that loves and writes poetry

Posted 9 Years Ago


1 of 1 people found this review constructive.

Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

I've just answered to Richard, that it is a pity that I'll only know after I've died, I'm not anxiou.. read more
 wordman

9 Years Ago

well rudi ,I think we can wait for the answer,i`m curious but not that curious lol
Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

9 Years Ago

indeed !! :) Rudi

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Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

Wingene, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium



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I'm from Belgium. English is not my native language, but I like to read English poems and books. I have written a lot of Dutch poems during the last forty years. With some of them I've got prizes in B.. more..

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