Hireth

A Poem

There are many examples, 
in cultures and languages with nuances 
of expression employing deep subtlety. 

Underlying these interpretations, though, 
the evoked emotion is the same
and ultimately indescribable. 

How do you define such
a universal thing which is 
simultaneously there and not?

What is this inexpressible longing 
for a something that
we can never see, nor touch.

Perhaps it’s a loss, call it a yearning, 
suggesting a hopelessness, 
it’s more of an aching.

Still, why do we need to know?
There are things beyond us. 
Beyond everything. Accept and enjoy this.

There are those who will answer 
they know what this is, aren’t there?
But no. They are wrong

and that is a certainty.

Be content in the knowledge
that this is a shared condition
but one unique to us each.

Mine, Absence, yours else-named. 
That which has no definition, 
yet defines us all.

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Lamorna Cove, Cornwall. November 2019. Nikon d750

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