Day 12

define it

Today’s prompt is definitions.

Yes, that’s right.

I love a good definition, and the etymology of a word.

But what IS a definition? What does that word mean to us, what’s hidden in the meaning behind it? What do we go to when we read the word?

I can’t wait to see where this takes us.

The definition of God

is meaningless,

I’ve found.

It is, at best,

a mirage,

for those of us

too hungry

and thirsty

to make out the right shape.

We see in the distance

what we most need,

and we move toward it

until we realize

that it was all a trick

of the mind’s eye,

or maybe it was simply

an everyday sunset.

God—

the Sacred—

Divinity—

Creator—

The Beginning—

erodes our definitions.

The definition itself

cannot be fathomed

or sensed,

because we do not

understand it.

We only long for it.

We only long for God

until we sense that we’ve

found Them somehow.

The definition, then,

is everything,

and nothing,

and it turns out

at best,

and at worst,

we are just humans,

storytellers,

poets,

thirsty folks

in the desert

and tired folks

standing on the shoreline

making up pictures

and drawing shapes

on the landscape.