Prisoners of Words

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We are just prisoners of words.
We need to translate:
our feelings, our perceptions,
the images that come from nowhere into the words.
We need thoughts, paradigms, theories.
We have generated many words and even more meanings.
We are wandering in the woods of words,
in the labyrinths of ideas.
We need to know, watch, listen to words, and words, and words.
They dictate to us how to see, to smell, to hear.
We are scared of touching, close breathing, looking into eyes.
We gradually but steadily lose the ability to direct cognition,
so called holistic vision.

I don't know and don't want to know
how deeply you are in love with me
and whether you love me, as much as I love you,
I just want to touch you, kiss you, hug you,
dive into the mound of your hair,
intertwine with you,
like vines with palisade,
and listen to the pulsation of the universe.
That's the only way to see the true light,
coming from our microcosms.
Let's dive into the flow,
which can not be called with words.

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© Copyright: Valentin Luchenko, 2021