The Visible Vs. the Invisible
Vast
armies of sand dunes prepare for the desert storm.
Headless
vagrant bands band against hunger with no
definition
on grocery shelves or grain elevators.
Schools
of fish at sea bottom against the sweep of sonar.
Instances
of the visible versus the invisible.
The
“five colors” are visible but they blind the eyes.
Likewise,
“thirty spokes has a wheel,” but it is their
disappearance
that makes the wheel useful.
As
leaves flutter, we know wind through their gaps.
As
raindrops fall, they fall on palaces and vacant lots,
landing
on doorknobs of silver or doorknobs of copper.
What’s
visible can signal the coming of the invisible.
As
History leaves temples and roads, it also leave
the
subterranean songs that flow in people’s veins.
Again
the visible portends the invisible.
At
bottom, one knows that to strike against the visible only
brings
out the invisible.
Nietzsche
had said, “Men are bricks for History. Some are
steppingstones
while others are stumbling blocks.”
Some
men are wise enough withhold judgment
until
the invisible becomes visible.
Koon
Woon
January
16, 2022
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