TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 47

Words are inescapable and yet their inaccuracies and vagaries are responsible for many a muddle or miscommunication. So how is a poet to get their message across? Well, the metaphor is easily understood from the reader's perspective and so one must attempt to make oneself clear almost from inside the word.

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“Don't gobblefunk around with words.” Roald Dahl

Beyond

Before I met you there was no rhyme,

No reason or boundaries to be crossed,

You could not bisect a situation,

Or show a truth to be false.

Is reason a line to be followed?

And is the beyond behind it?

What consequence would there be,

If we were to cross it?

The pale must be close to the line,

As beyond it is unreasonable,

I am so scared of such a place,

I stay well behind all of it.

Conclusions are hard to draw,

The benefits of which are evident,

Without the path on which it trod,

Being easily found.

“He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.” James Joyce