The Twelfth of Never
What is the twelfth of never?
Where can it be found?
Is it at the end of ever?
deep within the ground.
Does it exist behind the eye?
of the endless folds of brain
Or is it in the fruitless cry
of an infant’s starving pain?
What is the twelfth of never?
Is it a metaphor or rhyme
that speaks only to the clever
not to belong to the sublime?
Is it something that cannot be reached?
beyond the human throng,
a code that just will not be breached,
ransomed drastically wrong.
These thoughts express a loss of loss,
uncertain in its end,
a definition madly tossed
with words of mere pretend.
11/28/20
Copyright © Janis Thompson | Year Posted 2020
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