Sunday, November 30, 2008

A Voice from a Formless Dark
If meaning escapes
or is overcome by emotion
who mourns the loss of logic?

To slip easily
from a twisted tongue
and relish the sound of love
we must understand
the rhythm and the sound
without resort to reason.

If meaning still lurks
behind a stream of nonsense,
we should stomp it
into the dust of memory
and sing a song with a night bird;
for emotion is pointless
and the heart perceives a song.

Walt Abbott–11-10-08



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