beautiful speaking passes into the grave
so we have thought on earth except for what was saved
or memorized by heart, cordoned off in libraries
reverenced in old age by those with the memory of the
veins in the leaves of human speech.
oh out of reach and that for a long, long time
beautiful speaking is in decline and even the records of it
unenshrined
curled around the edges, sold off by lot.
all language has become polemical, inimical
fit for rage fit for those who are cyber aware
fit for the sunset of the Age.
what will language be then if the trend continue
Christ rose again may beautiful speaking rise with Him
rise with Him
in the language birds make through the air cleaving the air in two
on an emerald wave with the feelings retained and cherished and the
foreknowledge
of how to glide to turn the word to song
world without end children may sense in their apricot dreams
no matter what faux poets pretend, aspire to
or those who would have us mute or prone to slogans and thus
far easier to command.
mary angela douglas 18 january 2021
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