ONCE UPON A WORD

      There couldn’t have been humbler beginnings ..or messier ones 

      In a Primordial soup , it started it’s life , in a chaotic mess it all began 

      In unformed thoughts , in guttural groans and in inarticulate sounds 

      In gestures and in paintings on caves , in necessity and may be in desperation too 

      Into this mess , it was born …no one knows from whence it came or how

      It’s birth was not destined nor was it anticipated in any way ..

      One day it wasn’t and the next day it just was ..the first Word came into existence

      And then everything changed … the world would no longer be the same 

      The first Word was feeling lonely 

      So it dipped into the primordial soup and started creating more of it’s own kind

      And before time , there were many of them 

      And then they started creating other things and remaking the world 

      They were Gods really…so they started by creating Gods ..

      They invented War and then Diplomacy...they birthed Hatred 

      Then came Lust ….and closely on it’s heels , Love took form

      And the more they created ..the more powerful they became

     Thoughts were no longer unformed ..sounds were no longer inarticulate 

     Thoughts and sounds may have birthed Words ..

     But once formed , Words rebirthed Thoughts and sounds ..

     It is the weirdest cycle of life.. 

     They rule us now , these Words ..

     They are omnipotent …they can be empty and mean nothing 

     They can also mean the world …they hurt ..they soothe 

     They create ..they destroy ..they inspire. They deflate… 
     
     They are omniscient …they know everything ..

     And without them nothing can be known .. 

     They inform …they obfuscate…they confuse ..and they edify .. 

     They are shapeshifters ….they can be dense like a winter fog… 

     And clear as a spring morning…

    They are the medium and the message… 

    The beginning ..the end and the middle too..

    The world birthed them and they birthed whole new worlds.. 

    It is true what they say ..

    In the Beginning. There was the Word.. 

    But the Word was not with God..

    The Word was God.