Saturday, August 6, 2022

After Maeterlinck ~ Saturday, August 6, 2022

... "we devalue" words as ideas "in a strange way"

exactly as thoughts use words to communicate

depth of perceptions as experience in time

exactly as words fail to offer or convey

visions of this world as some contrived description

albeit the words appear to commiserate

lukewarm sympathy at a service, the real crime

undermines our words when lacking in eloquence

even if fitting, emotions in transcription

weaken the vessel of language to portray love

only to rise up in revolt in a novel

remember that words like paint color without a glove

deliberately used as tools to bow down, grovel

submit while in fear before supreme eminence

as the illusion of depth lets us envision

sorrow in others, artifice makes beautiful

ingeniously formed phrases on the page, the face

decidedly makes all too real our decision

entering a pact with a cosmic bond to frame

aspects of the real as either unsuitable

simply lacking truth or deluded by our place

in this world, status identifies the unreal

nothing but ego as reflection in a game

as we chase ourselves through a horror of mirrors

suggest that these words themselves, so abstract, speak lies

truly, you are right, trust your gut, all these errors

really justify grandiloquence as false spies

as the beholder of beauty, aesthetics peel

not a banana but the idea of what's seen

given properties of majesty, poetry

ever so artful, lacks the epic gift to reach

words as a witness to events as they have been

argue as you wish, these words, as gibberish, see

yesterday as past, the present something to teach

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