The Thing Itself

      In any universal force
           or unifying vision
      An emptiness of intent inhabits,
           a blank of indecision.
5     To try and grasp the whole of Man 
           must blur individuation
      And see all wide variation One,
           innocent of division.
      Who can blame them for their blankness,
10         or feel themselves assured
      That they have flossed Reality
           from the asterisked Obscure?
      Wherever truth lies
           it lies becalmed,
15    Unmoved in its sutures
           by winter storms or squalls.
      We come into our knowing
           neither too early nor too late
      But just in a moment's glowing
20         and take what we may take.
      If you don't, as I don't,
           know just what a thing is
      Sit silent, or politely ask
           the thing itself its business.

 

From the collection "The Sword Inside"

Written by Gregg Glory [Gregg G. Brown]

More information available on gregglory.com.