The Expression on the Face of Mankind

The Expression on the Face of Mankind

The answers come, the ones we are not asked,

Or not in wisdom, maybe in our heart

Of mystic hearts, but not in books.  Those tasked

With answering them watch intellect depart

When they are prudent.  Wisdom in the waves

Which pulsate through the universe and us,

Our personal and cosmic architraves,

Is waiting for the timeless to discuss

The meaning lost in space and days.  This waits

Until we find it nonetheless by chance

Or fate.  This pith was never held in straits

But waited for us each to find its trance.

Since men cannot express the outcome, they

Are mazed in spiritual and mind dismay.

Phillip Whidden