The Unword
Digging Deeper
Line 1 [
- this is the "unword", unwritten, and untyped. Not existing or spoken. I believe that everything that was made, was made through the word, so I call the 'nothing', the 'unword', and the poem progress from there.
Line 2 [after
- this is the only lowercase starting word, used to suggest the 'presence' of the unword. Also, the word itself suggest something came before it, and something came later.
Line 3 [Legacy
- something left by influential beings in the wake of their passing.
Line 4 [Future Tenses
- thinking ahead. Someone named 'Future' reacting in fear or anticipation in the present; suggests the influence of the present on the future. If we never think ahead we would have no grammatical need of the future tense.
Line 5 [Cycle of progress
- a cycle repeats itself, but progress moves away from one thing toward a different thing. It is a contradiction of view points. Short sighted thinking makes a cycle appear like progress. Real progress may appear like a cycle if the past is not properly observed or remembered.
Line 6 [Receiving further along the path
- All we learn and know was given and allowed to be known. We merely receive it rather then forced it out ourselves. However, it is those who are seeking that find. A path suggest a destination, rather then a track that would denote an endless loop.
Line 7 [Rested, walking in the cool and new speech
- "After the Day of Rest, the author of life walked in the cool of the day, in the orchard of words."
Line 8 [Blood, body, me. In the dark place. Out. Breathe. Drink. Eat. Remember me.
- 1) The start of life is full of blood, and then the two halves make for this first time ever, a person's complete genetic make up. The entire code for this person is put together. Growing in the darkness of the womb, and then birthed. Then, in the order of progression: we come out of the womb, we cry and breath our first breathe, we drink our food until we can eat it, and lastly we want to be thought of after we die.
- 2) Jesus: What happened, what was broken, why He died. Laid in a tomb. Arisen. Alive. Wine. Bread. In remembrance.
Us: Wine, bread, who we remember. Those without the light. Light. Alive. Alive. Alive. In remembrance.
