Words Evolving – The Turning of Terms
The turning of the terms
Words evolving
The past erased or so believed
Does meaning becomes meaningless?
And the answer to the eternal question
No longer hold substance or value
Surrounded or so it appears
By a variant of what occurred
Mere moments ago
Some seek the analysis
An alternative description
As if two pathways that ran concurrent
For so long that everyone assumed
They were actually one
But realized with a single slight
That there was a bond between them
Which could be separated
When circumstances flourished
Never considering that chance
Was never really in play
A rising of new energies
Penetrating and cold
Abstract and carefully dangerous
Once engaged became heated and fierce
Gnawing and wretched
With an appetite for ugliness
Consuming all that which held value
That which gave substance
And the depth of singularity
Now mired in multiple dualities
Evolving they say
As if it was something beneficial
Once the fracture is opened
Everything stands to suffer
And the solidity is challenged
The anticipation of happening
No longer a noble pursuit
And to seek becomes merely an exercise
Of motion without purpose
The line of completion
Moving constantly without warning
Ambition surrendered to stoic reflection
Discovery disregarded
Disengaged passengers of humanity
Who choose to stop caring
All eyes watching the slow separation
The fabric shredding
Falling into nothingness
Disintegrating into an ending
With no beginning
Evolving is not necessarily
An improvement
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Hi RJ , I find this interesting at different levels , it can mean many things in many ways . Great writing , It really makes one think about ALL the possibility and meanings .
Keep it up . …………..Ed
Enjoyable philosophical poem….so much truth in the last two lines from an emotional and a biological perspective. Thank you for sharing. Jamie
Most generally think that if something is evolving it is constantly improving, like natural selection, survival of the fittest. In the case of word, however, some great words have fallen by the wayside to be no longer used, and new ‘street talk’ and ‘text talk’ etc is taking their place. I doubt very much this is an improvement.