Said and Done

When all is said and done

Let there be light, enough

That we might

Imagine the distance

We have failed to unravel

When all is said and done

Let there be the hum

Of the machinery of a heart

That starts to splutter

Its impossible name

When all is said and done

Let us forget the failure

To recall what it was

That built such an obstinate

Wall of words

When all is said and done

Let us learn to spin

A new alphabet of

Hope that makes a rope

That we might

Climb up and find

If not ourselves

Then someone else...