We are prisoners, all
With no exceptions, trust me.
If you find it hard to believe
Please tell me what it means to be free?
The predilection for definition
is the 'defining' (!!) trait of our kind.
The Human Kind.
We must, each one of us,
Define - Ourselves and our fellows.
And at all times.
This affliction is not a pursuit to know.
But to make known.
Our most triumphant achievements
Any of the myriad successes on God's green earth and beyond.
Would amount to nothing,
If we couldn't have it all distilled, captured and glorified through the ages,
in Words - man's greatest invention.
Words - borne of a conceited experiment to immortalize our legacy
Then, feeding our nascent need to analyze,
categorize,
organize
and well.. 'Humanize'
that which we 'found out'
within and without.
Freeing captives long held under oppressive silences
Who 'found their tongue' (so to speak) for
Communication
Comprehension
Composition
Today, the key word is 'information'
(..Again, our predilection for definition)
Had I my 'speak' in a world of freemen,
I want to ask this.
Haven't we, in this definitive quest, gone severely amiss?
What word exists, that at its root
holds a meaning that's absolute?
A layman's 'light' is that which dispels 'darkness'
A scientist is no better for his rigors - his truth is only as precise as his tools
What of a poet? a painter? or danseuse? - in every age is good and bad form decided.
No system is perfect.
No solution is perfect.
To err is human, as the saying goes.
And we dare to have definitions?
Devoid of absolute truth.
Devoid of any real meaning, so to say.
Each Word, a handicapped attempt to explain
each Definition - a web of deceit.
How can we be free?
when Freedom.. is 'defined'!
... and that too, as - 'the absence of slavery'.
Truly, what a web of words...
This greatest con - the Lexicon.
