In this episode of Wanderings, Ashaley Koblah unveils "A Love Undefined", a haunting and powerful new poem.

This is not a lament for love lost, but a confrontation with a force as old as the cosmos, a presence whose beauty allured even the gods.

The episode delves into the rawness of desire, the danger of yearning, and the stunning revelation that a "tally" of a different kind has been kept all along.

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Wanderings with Ashaley Koblah

Episode 7: A Love Undefined

You are a conquest, defined by many, from friend to foe. A tiring fight with you, like a slow, unyielding fire. But I see your beauty from a deeper outlook.

You are the first language, spoken by gods before the forming of man.

The foremost expression of Him who made all things.

Etched in purest forms, like the light of Valinor.

By you, the horizon was drawn.

To know you is to know the mind of God, divinely born in the hearts of all sentient life, before man spoke his first words. Your names have always been spoken by many across the lands.

But you, you were never a beginning, neither are you an ending.

You and God, inseparable. Like the Son, you walk a path of truth and brilliance.

Your words reveal wisdom, beauty, divinity.

They are a quiet stream over a tired hand, making the path a straight line for the resilient.

Kin of the gods,

beautiful power,

Language of the highest minds.

I am she. Mathematics.

You will love me if you stay.

Reflective Interlude

In this episode, I looked at mathematics not just as a tool or a set of rules but as an essence. A pure language, existing in its place within the known and unknown universe, amongst gods and men.

We discovered it, and we named it. But it was always there, embedded in creation itself.

Take a look at the Fibonacci series, expressed in life forms throughout our natural world, or the irrational number pi, stretching all the way to infinity. It is a truth that was spoken of and whose beauty allured gods long before we even existed. It falls on us all to pause and look closer at its beauty and truth.

To appreciate that it’s etched deep within our own formation. It is our honour to dare to understand it. To comprehend it deeply, not for the sake of doing, but for the sake of knowing it. And by doing so, you'll fear it not but love it because you stayed.

Outro

This has been Episode 7, A Love Undefined.

Thank you… for listening.