why don’t
YOU
walk down history
as through a great avenue
to deliver the good news
to a decaying world
why don’t
YOU
speak a language
whose every word
is a cup filled
with beatific light
why don’t
YOU
become
the blossoming bud
of fire that will consume
the wasteland of the earth
why don’t
YOU
release mankind
from its immemorial shackles
and carry the heavy light of truth
to the eyes of every man, woman
and child
why don’t
YOU
reveal the gates of salvation,
or the ultimate purpose
of our petty lives
why don’t
YOU
add up all divinities
and multiply them
into one enormous entity
why don’t
YOU
unite all opposites
sensual and ideal
material spiritual
past future
life death
into a totality of all
totalities
why don’t
YOU
wrestle from the grip
of science and religion
the meaning of all
being
why don’t
YOU
lift the veil of illusion
and disclose the essence
behind this all-
embracing chaos
then, only then
I will follow you.
Beyond Language 