4. planets don’t talk
But if science is how we make sense of it all then certainly the key to language must be hidden in the planets. If all of our lessons start at the sun there must be one or several billion lessons on words radiating onto us every day.
Because planets don’t talk
They move
Their teachings are never audible.
Planets don’t make sounds
They make changes occur
With earth as their easel, nature their brush.
They don’t know where they’re going
because they stay on their course.
They don’t need outward expression
because they already know themselves.
So why did we get a mouth and uranus?
It makes you wonder why everything is so loud on earth but not a single sound in the stars.
It appears audible language is unique to the human experience which means it’s either something to be solved for or contemplated on.
Until the end of time.
It makes you wonder how much is buried
beneath the layers of letters, words and sentences.
How much meaning can be found in the absence of sound?
How different are you and I
when we don’t speak the same language?
What happens when we consider the way we move as part of our language?
What can we discover of a culture if we think not only the term they use for a god but also the tone they speak it in?
Consider the speed in which things roll off the tongues.
Speculate the ease in which phrases are delivered.
The way they step into us to say I love you.
And move away when they say I don’t.
Do they sound mad when they’re using mad words
or do they rush through the good stuff?
Am I overthinking it all?
Or have we not thought about it enough?
Planets don’t question their existence.
Humans have to.
Planets don’t make sounds.
Humans can’t shut up.