In the valley of words; and mountains of ideas!: A poem 

Does a word fulfil an expression? Does an 

expression fulfil a thought? How benign is  

an expletive compared to the sense of actual anger, 

bitterness? Do you feel that an expression is 

only assuaged by its exhibition? Does, then, expression 

mitigate angst? Or do we ignore the frustration of 

dissatisfied resonance without the beat of the pulse 

and carry on with the swords carving out words 

that flow like rivers transparent, yet with only 

measured depths. Poetry is no sky of confirmation 

that affirms completeness. You know your aphorismic  

inadequacy is a forest that is about to be felled through 

its own expression of the idea? How in vain is the theatre of words 

submerged like kelp, a damp squib? There can be repleteness but 

not completeness, if you are so self-aware that you become 

aware of the pain, that a lexicon cannot bridge the universe.  

Like love is so amazing an idea, but when encountered, fails  

the idea, itself. Do we feel frustrated at the onset, when we 

find we have so few words to size up our feelings? How about 

before Babel? Did the ideograms link the sentiment with the  

manifestation? And did the carvers of stone feel the pain 

of patience in taking time to celebrate its ultimate conveyance? 

Or feel that all the effort taken failed its purpose? 

Did we commute in stranger ways before? Like telepathy? 

So, we never needed language; and language was only a fall from grace? 

And we needed only ochre palmprints in caverns to communicate 

our existence to posterity. And will we find the ultimate in AI, 

that will talk beyond our talk? Or should we feel that silence  

is the worthiest medium in the expression of our wholesomeness,  

even our grief! 

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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