Only poetry probes
the complicated inner life of God. 

Only imagination reaches
the unspoken and unarticulated mystery of What's Beyond.

Only the mystic enters
(naked, vulnerable, purposeless)
the Holy of Holies.

Only artists lead us
to the Center.

Am I overstating?
I struggle to know. 

Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.