Listen

In the beginning was the Word

and the Word was spoken, heard,

recalled, remembered, forgotten,

added to

              forever changing its form

though the meaning forever the same

first entering through ear

and then into the heart and soul

and body

              and then another word

added and so context was born

and its twins of rhythm and rhyme

and the ability to recall more

than a single word

                             and so the explosion,

birth of language stories were 

created

            and reality took on its

true double-entendre meaning

as Imagination and Metaphor

spawned contemplation because

the Word fluid was heard, said,

altered to match experience 

in its ever-changing, always new

way of being

                       and the Word was spoken,

heard, repeated for thousands

of years

                before the written word

did what iit has done --

In the beginning was the Word!

Word without end.

-Byron Hoot