The Lipless Mask

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Unspoken and unspeakable it comes,

The answer, though no question has been asked.

The deepest, pre-dawn half-light answer thrums

Unspeakably.  Religions each are tasked

With prophecy and revelation set

In unknown blues and suddenly the sky

Is pregnant with the harshest meaning yet

Discovered waiting with the unknown why.

The burdens of the midnight, night and dawn

Not yet delivered in a meaning youth

Can fathom fade too much, a song withdrawn

Before Cassandra wails out unheard truth.

  Or beauty tacit, mumbled, will displace

    The other seer who abandons face.