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but that —or seeing that come to pass—
is not what gives us value
it's in the human feeling
the depth of vision and entreaty
the search for value
setting sail and mapping the white-crested
roiling of times and turnings
everything of value can be lost
but the losing is not the keystone
not the architecture or its purpose
it is just an undesired event
that follows the desired events
that demonstrated the value of the now no more
we can be brave and still fall feebly
we can be brazen and be smothered
we can be good and right and careful
and see all the petals of a rosy trance
fall away like so much fog and reticence
we can love fully and eternally
and be answered by inexplicable endings
far too tame and shocking to be written...
© 2007 Joseph Robertson
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WRITING & NAMING: the medicine of acquiring knowledge
Joseph Robertson
Language is that point of contact in the abstract, that plane where the intellectual life within us is enabled to assert itself as part of the overall experience of living. Language is that plane where the individual self is allowed repeated attempts at manifestation. What takes place in the process of writing, in the spilling of ink or the posting of digital characters, the slip toward defining a landscape, however brief, is the sanctification of an individual, and by extension of the human condition as such...
Not every person is a writer, by trade, nor should they be, but there is something about the act of writing that serves the writing individual as if it were a medicine for selfhood, a healing venture into clean waters. Especially so when its intent is to be expressive of secret regions of the mind or to lay out new experimental vessels for such expression. [Keep reading...]
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