Beyond Words
Words open up
and unlock
spaces inside
to escape and hide
to be elsewhere
or to climb to the top
and scaffold to the sky.
A journey from side to side
perhaps from left to right
to the end of the page
paragraph or line
read or spoken through time .
But then outside;
The drop
to the Nowhere of Nothingness
No thoughts; no doubts
No plans; No pains
Just minds ticking away
Billions and billions of minds without a word to say
stretching out to infinity
waiting for what comes next
if beyond stories and verse
we still retain future, present and past.
Yet No!!! No!!
There is no sense beyond the text
I heard philosophers say;
that words cannot take us all the way
and so in the dark; hoping for a flame
a light of Hope to guide us to the end of day
Beyond all words
and anything we can possibly say.
David Evans
