a friend once told me
that each artist must
develop a new language
this is true of poets too
words are more than words
as thoughts are more than thoughts
the power of poetry
comes through how each
word turns into a subtle reality
if I am to understand
the mystery of creation
then I think it is found
in the pain of others
in their own humanity and inability
to release themselves from desire
and to learn the language of poetry
to grasp it so fully and so completely
that they then become someone beyond themselves
they become a vessel of light and compassion
a torch burning brighter and brighter
a gentle flame moving from sun to sun
lighting up the visible universe (28 billion light years in diameter)
and beyond, becoming starlight that travels and bends
beyond all the distant horizons of time
creating new realities, infinite in scope
our imaginations can do that you know
as our lives move in a motion of poetry
becoming the first poem ever spoken by God
as such a poem God uses us to make and sustain creation
we are the poet and the poem out of which each moment arises
Ron Starbuck
Copyright 2010
