Through the Ages
Herb Kauderer
The Pythia at Delphi
observed in passing
that poets touch people
with their words
but do so
without understanding
what those words mean.
The poets do not understand the people
either, yet their touch means so much
that people seek them out
to feel their words
as confused poets devote whole lives
to second hand connections
pushing forth symbolic language
across a distance of continents
languages and ages.
Hearts and minds connect without regard
for the duration of flesh
and so an oracle millennia gone
reaches out to mold us in the image
of Olympian myths
as we bask in moonlight
touching our cultural ancestors,
yet unconnected to our lunar footprints
so impossibly far away.
