Untitled Poem
June 28, 2009

I think this poem was influenced by reflecting on a fact learned today. While studying the Egyptian adze, I learned a meteor had hit near one of the regions whose people were devoted to Set even as late as Roman times. The 'metal of Set' is that meteoric iron. When Plutarch spoke of Set, "with a blow he broke through his mother's side and leapt forth," no doubt he was referring to this meteor which tore through the womb of Nuit.

The adze, a tool used in the 'opening of the mouth' ceremony, is made of this iron. I think of the opening of the mouth like the opening of consciousness itself.


Until the realization,
thunder-struck,
opened my mind,
I had no words with which to speak.
Holding words,
but not knowing how to put them together,
the puzzle begins.
It is of origins,
from heaven to earth.
But we are all 'within heaven',
as we rest on an orbiting ball
through the realms of Nuit.
She holds us all.
I am not spinning,
the earth is spinning.
If I seem at the center,
then so does everyone else, from where each rests.
What is rushing by me?
Time I cannot touch.
Must I rush?
I cannot slow the earth's spinning.
Somewhere a truth is being born.
It, too, will take time before it can speak.
I hope I shall not rush by,
oblivious to its soft voice.

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