Words gather here dissecting captive thought
to name its systems, organs, tissues, cells,
compiling a proud glossary of death
so pleased to clearly say what once it meant.
Words gather here to keep a thought alive,
unpinning, stitching up the cruel cuts,
reviving pulse with shocking heresy,
inspiring breath with whispered mysteries.
Words gather here to mine a paradigm
refining it to crystallized belief,
to chisel icons from emerging creed
discarding secret truth in rubble dust.
Words gather here
to look at dust
and wonder
what they missed.
