Words are not enough
Words are not enough.
They never can be.
Words paint pictures
But do they connect?
Are the words the same
For you and me?
Can words do justice
To a majestic vision?
A leaf in words
Is not a leaf.
A sunset
Cannot be described.
I use my words to paint pictures
In your mind.
But they are pale imitations
Of reality.
We always fall short.
Even our reality
Is a pale imitation
Of what really is.
Our limitations
Makes us fall short.
Our senses are too few;
Our mind too little
Opher – 18.11.2019
I am always struggling with realisation that what we see is not real. The world is filtered through a limited number of senses. There is so much we do not see. Our minds interpret the electric patterns and turns them into pictures. But our minds are tiny; our perceptions limited. The world we see is not the world that is. It is so much less.
When we attempt to use words to describe the world we must always fall short – for even the greatest poet cannot use limited symbols, that connect in ambiguous ways, to describe a partially understood phenomenon. We must always fall short.