What, then, is there left to say?
That somehow, amidst creating what seemed to be a path to the beginning that it will begin to implode? Or is it that to begin is not necessarily to understand that there is a step taken but perhaps to take that step. Or is it to say that in the midst of the chaos there was a bird perched daintily on a branch, its feathers glistening in the rays of the sun? That chaos, like all other forms of organized thinking, starts with an idea – and has no discernable end.
If not that then what?
What?
Show me the words.
Give me the vowels that I might mix them with consonants and find a way to quantify this constant – change.
Seventeen shillings, palmed by a boy at a shop, particular care given to the one shilling coins. So easily lost. So easily forgotten. Dropped.
Like a collection of knowledge put to a broken beat and sold for 99 cents on the iTunes store. Like a downloaded album, listened to once and forgotten. Like a song on replay, lyrics held close as if somehow they held the key to the secret of immortality. As if somehow living forever is not only a thing that is aspired to but is also available at the shop for 33 shillings.
As if the fifty bob note in your pocket is enough to buy you freedom – forever.
Freedom.
Forever.
Concepts that neither start nor end. Space and time unchained and set loose on a path that is supposed to lead to the beginning.
Unmoving.
Circling each other.
Anxious.
Waiting for the right words that they might begin to move.
But what, then, is left to say?