If A Thought

If a thought

were a complete process,

from sensory input

to subsequent action

then how does that process

do its work?

What is taken

from the senses

that is so workable

to initiate

that process forward?

Is this then

the brain in identification

or the work

of formal understanding,

forming some sense

of direction and directives

to launch as actions

towards results?

And how is experience

as an observer

seductively furthering

the whole process along?

Is this the outset

of the journey,

with the senses

as opening lines,

as all stories of this nature

start with

either survival or procreation?

Is this still the advent

of thought before abstraction,

thought as a stand alone,

before the art of deduction,

before intentions

and visions

and repetitions?

Is thought . . .

only a process

or a product?

If either is so

then is a fact

a by-product

of thought’s inquisition,

a hostage by contrivance,

a deeper spin

than just motive can reveal?

Was the ‘information age’

then a situation

of divide and conquer?

Is understanding

then just a means

of giving appearances

to a kind of wise myopia?

Isn’t thought,

in its most prevalent

operational use

just a form

of insular solipsism . . .

set free?