for naming is not knowing

as every sentence showing

in any descriptive story

pages dilute glory

an epistolary love affair

must fall short of being there

the dancing words and music then

could not hold those moments when

deafening the pilgrim's plight

we rocked so hard by candle light

from Little Wing by Concrete Blonde

to Consolations of David Whyte

(though all verse cannot contain

the boundless chorus and refrain

knowing now not naming how

saxifragilous we remain)

he said

"Most of our heartbreak comes

from attempting to name who or what

we love and the way we love too early

in the vulnerable journey of discovery"

"We name mostly in order to control, but what

is worth loving does not want to be held within

the bounds of too narrow a calling"

alas to this my eyes were shut

if when asking you board the plane

before Bangkok, Bali, Ceningan,

i knew naming is not knowing our

Impossible Hawaii would not be the same

yet the many-moons sky, the long-time sun agree

all free and dancing timelessly

so lucky in love to come back home

to ourselves and we

'tis with words we come to see

what matters ever more will be

ever true as carved in wood

growing sure as trees

unspoken in the forest

unfallen amongst the pines

the times we had were gorgeous

beyond any words of mine

eating, praying, loving

another writer wrote:

"Listen. Balance, my darling,

is not letting anybody love you

less than you love yourself."

falling like a redwood

finally i took note

we call to each all

in love with sounds

of every way which

has no bounds

we name a noun,

a verb, a time

and give it reason,

give it rhyme

saying is not knowing

as a rose by any other name

doesn't matter what we call it

the song remains the same

ooh la la

i wish that

i knew what i know now when I was younger

i wish that i knew what i know now

when I was stronger

party on