Mystery and meaning

A whole life swung

Between gibbets of mystery

And meaning,

Meaning sought from the

Feckless fray, purpose

Crying to be found,

A lens of sense to

Lay across it all,

Whilst mystery lies

Waiting, silent, brooding,

Her cloak unveiling to

Yet more unseen.

Mystery and meaning, intwined

For mystery emerges from

The solidity of meaning and

Meaning is born out of

Mystery.

Upon the two a life

Lays cast, adrift,

Torn apart as two

Poles wrench, aghast,

Until sometime somehow

A third world enters.

Mastery.

Mastery makes whole

Mystery and meaning, lives

Alongside them, within

And beside, brings

The roaring silence to

Deaf mute clamour.