Grasping The Awe

Words whether they are vocalized

Into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts

Can cast an almost hypnotic spell on you

You easily lose yourself in them

And can become hypnotized into implicity

Believing, that when attach a word to something

You know what it is the fact is you don't know

You have only covered up the mystery with a label

Everything a bird a tree even a simple stone

And certainly a human being is ultimately unknowable

Becoming shallow lifeless deadened

To life unfolding around you within

Grasping the awe inside around you

When you stare a flower or a bird let it be

Without imposing a word or label to it

A sense of awe and wonder arises within

A sense of the miraculous returns to your life

That was lost long ago

The quicker you attach words to things people or situations

The more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes

And the more deadened you become to the miracle

Of life that continuously unfolds within and around you

All we can perceive and experience is the surface

Layer of reality less than the tip of the iceberg

Listen to silence

Words reduce reality to something the

Human mind can grasp which isn't very much