the double-down of words

beware of the double-down of words,

as the secret of secrets,

or the breath within the breath,

or the sigh within the sigh.

to know of the meanings behind the meaning.

this is where all nouns live the life of verbs.

where livid and lucid take up their secrecies. 

where emotion overwhelms thought's demise.

where essence takes on the disguise of form.

where understanding is beckoned, 

but thoughtfulness is also brought along.

if you ever get to see what sight does

or hear hearing at work

or fall into a synesthesia state, 

then you come upon the false front of language.

where the feel always exceeds the description.

where the immerse is more dimensionally rich

than any account can come to measure.

the work of the mind has to be further witnessed.

not just for results presented,

but for the delicacy of the thoughts as they are placed.

words as double-downs give rise to a sense that,

one is not their thoughts or its outcomes.

it may even appear as the wrong tool in usage.

where feel or intuit or gut were more righteous

and poignant of for the focus needed.

words allow us to travel on a frozen lake,

made of understanding's gloss.

but all the lakes have seasons of passage.

and emotions run deep beyond what surface offers.

intuitions may function without time restraints.

even psychism can travel in a strange means.

words are chiseled to reflect a past,

to bargain with memory and subsequent regard. 

double-downs reveal what falseness can pass for.

at some point in the evolutionary process,

we will know what know does 

and what feel feels

and how awareness saunters about.

and then a deeper presence will arise

and become more common place. 

each of us to our own, 

until that too is realized as a fronting of being.

then the camouflage of double-downs will cease

to be the mysteries that we come to reveal . . .