There is a space and time
Without words.
They cannot know,
They cannot show.
They do not reach.
All mouths are stopped.
"Worse than the poet who says nothing,
Is the poet who has nothing to say."
Out of nothing known,
Out of nothing shown—
Where and when,
There and then—
The Maker made all things,
Before there was yet
A maker to poet the likeness.
The ineffable Word sang,
That ineffable life might bear
Children by Wisdom;
That life might lie down
In rest with first breath,
Where and when
Ineffable love never left.
"May God sing in us,
That life may know song."
There is a space and time
Without words.
Though to know they search,
Though to show they seek,
They cannot reach.
All mouths are stopped...
But One breathing
Ineffable song.
Ineffable to thought's tongue,
Announced in soul's sigh:
Incarnate to know
Incarnate to show
The song found in blood,
From deeper depths
Than marrow in bone,
Set apart to reach
In the space at the time.
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“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?"
"... a time to keep silence, and a time to speak..."
"Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he. The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man?"
"But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him.”
"Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God. For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin."
"And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows— and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter."
"When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour."
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