There was one Goddess who comprehended it all, inspiration
And they comprehended it all together and lit the Agni Flame to call upon her, invocation
To explain her, today, we make a list
Long before philosophy, before science was
The Word
Before music was chanting and chanting
Verse
Created everything in the Vedas
It was all there, is all there
Song
Devas, devotion, communion, community
Sacred Flame
Carrying burning souls’ aspirations into Agni unto Sarasvati
So it was, it is in Homer, Apollo’s Delphi, in David’s
Psalms
It’s all there: wisdom, lex, lux, love, lifegiving inspiration, love giving life
Praise and supplication
And Babel specialized each species and genera, specious
So we have scientists, philosophers, musicians
Poetry
Alone, isolated, island unto itself, no word is an island,
Style
Isn’t sufficient to suffuse sapientia, Sophia, sophistry, silence
I live literature all allowed together, all awed
A lawless freedom of discipline
Makes
A discipline out of words
Alongside science, philosophy, music
And primal unity of what matters together
Breaks
David Fekete 