This poem was written for the October 10th, 2010 events of Terasem Escalation and especially to celebrate the birthday of Martine Rothblatt, one of Terasem's Founders, to whom this poem is dedicated with deepest respect and gratitude, for all she and her partner Bina have done to launch a program for safely navigating the Singularity and then going beyond that endlessly, to every corner of the Multiverse.
-------------Thank you,
---Martine and Bina (MarBina),
------------4 Terasem,
--------------4 Ever!
----Fred & Linda Chamberlain
Acknowledgement: The keyboard arrangement used is that created by John Barry, composer/arranger of the music, which in turn is the theme from the Movie, "Somewhere in Time". A more complete acknowledgement is provided in the video of another poem, "Terasem, I See You", on Vimeo at:
vimeo.com/15954132
The movie "Somewhere in Time" is, for the two of us, one of the greatest love stories of all time, with its stellar performances by Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour based on the wonderful, award winning novel by Richard Matheson, "Bid Time Return".
John Barry's music is the final touch in making this film so compelling a vision of a "love that could last forever" that it has inspired a fan group to hold an annual gathering each year to celebrate and remember it, on Macinac Island in northern Michgan, at the hotel-resort where the picture was filmed. The fan group's website is at: http://www.somewhereintime.tv/insite.htm
The tie-in between this movie and Terasem is that as each of us builds his or her mindfile, there is the outlook that at some future time, perhaps only a few decades from now, perhaps further away in time, a point will be reached at which those who have made adequate preparations in the way of mindfiles will "wake up" in a kind of cyberspace "heaven" that we can scarcely begin to imagine, at this time.
For lovers who hold this vision, as their biological lives slip away from them, they truly believe that this what awaits them, at some point in the future, "somewhere in time".
One of (Fred) has composed lyrics for this very poignant melody, structured to fit the keyboard arrangement of John Barry's, which in some respects differs from the flow of the score used in orchestral form in the Movie. Those lyrics are as follows:
Somewhere in time,
I’ll wait for you,
And if I’m lost in time,
Perhaps, you will wait too.
We’ve been such friends,
For, so many years, and,
We’ve shared so many,
Hopes, and joys, and tears.
Somewhere in time,
We’ll fly again,
Into a future, that,
Perhaps, may have no end.
Where each who lives,
There, may be a friend,
To all those, who finally,
Make it, round the bend.
And even then,
We’ll only be,
As if young children, facing,
A, great, myst-ery.
What will await,
Us, as we climb,
Into those misty heights,
Ahead, somewhere, in time.
