Words Poem by guillermo veloso

In progress
Words
Words progress
Words lemming-like and anxious
Find their way to the tongue
Tongue; the genesis of spoken thought
The creator of song and sorrow
The path of no return.
Words swim and prance
Words sing and dance
Words sting and prod
Words prick and last
Words present and past.
Words reveal themselves
Unwitting ambassadors
Marionette prophets
Mouth piece of the soul
Dummies on unforgiving laps.
Words leap to the void
Words lend form to the moment
Words decompose in the harsh dry winds
Time.
Moment becomes dream
Dream becomes memory
Memory crawls upon our
Worn, bark dry limbs
Memory and moment
The discarded skin of a cicada
Decades in birth.
The rotten carcasses of useless words bear
Skeletal witness
Harsh testimony of
The futility of definition
The senseless, ceaseless struggle to describe
Document and define
The loneliness of true passion
As it writhes
Circumscribed by prescribed convention
Wrestled down and held in the grip of
What should or should not be spoken.
The unspoken truth is a fury
The unmentioned passion is the sun's ray
The unheld moment is the passing wind's
Eternal glory.