Word Wonder

Word Wonder

Even with the gaps that we mind

Between words and the signified

Words can weave a consolatory wickerwork 

Around pain, constellating new understandings.

Words can weave their way through warp

And weft of puzzles, riddles and ridicule

And liberate a pathway to freedom -

A word can wield a way where once

There seemed to be none.

Even in a world where they are bent, 

Spun and twisted to fit false, fickle

And fast fleeting perspectives,

Words can bestow the wonder of a truth

Owned, a trouble halved and shared

And a redeeming olive branch proffered.

An imaginary realm where dreams

Can live, words weave a sound around 

The silence, birthing the unsaid to be

Heard and acknowledged. And as this 

Trail of electronic words marches

Across the glow of the virtual page 

To the gleaming sightlines of your listening eyes

So we see and read each other 

As stars passing across times eternal skies.