The Thread Between

To gain wisdom is not 
to claw answers 
out of the fabric of things 
but to listen 
to the meaning already
present in them.

Wisdom understands
the stillness of stone,
the river’s persistent
flow, the world silently 
orbiting another sun.

Wisdom already knows 
not all questions can be 
answered and not all
meaning is shaped by 
human hands or heads 
or hearts.

Wisdom leans close 
to the unspoken, 
to the fall of light on an 
empty field, 
to the sound of a loom 
that shapes a pattern 
it can not understand.

And in this leaning, 
the wise become stewards 
of meaning, 
ensuring the thread 
between what can know, 
what can learn,
and what simply is,
remains unbroken.