Our River of Time.

I don't necessarily agree that words should last through the ages--
Not because they're not meaningful,
Not because they are falsely representative of
Things

Threatened by extinction.

Words deserve to be rare.
And they should even die.

I think it is practical that when a young person needs a word,
Say,

Meadow or cupola

He should have to borrow it from another universe.

This language we speak should be seen as a river
Bending out of sight.

The very course of things seems to say,
I don't know where I am going.

I don't know where I'm taking you.

He should, at a sound, and when asked, say the two words
Edvard Grieg
As if he had never been born.