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but a wall of fire stood on the bank
i wanted to go to the mountain
but the roads were sheathed in ice
i wanted to go to the temple
but the mortar of envy had sealed the door
i wanted to go to the source of justice
but no map could direct me
i wanted to shelter myself in the truth
but no material is the truth in full
i wanted to make a pilgrimage
but every destination called out together
i wanted to journey in silence
but silence fell away with movement
i wanted to drink a glass
but the wine had turned to diamond
i wanted to turn to the law
but it had been carried away by the wind
i wanted to go to the market
but the market had been sold
i wanted to venture into the unknown
but i had been shackled by default
i wanted to unchache hidden worlds
but the process was too seductive to surpass
i wanted to bring heaven to earth
but the earth could not accept
i wanted to remake the world
so i started to dream beyond myself...
© 2002 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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