Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Unknowable


                                   
       Can the mango describe how it feels to ripen in the sun
Or the caterpillar describe how it turns into a butterfly?
Transformation must be experienced: there are no words to share it.
In silence and stillness, there is such a sweet ripening -
Deep inside the inside of the inside,
When the familiar peels off like an onion,
Layer by fleshy layer,
What is left is the unsayable.

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