China

Energy
By any other name
might still move as comfortably

God
called anything else
might be just as hard to point out
just as hard just as easy just as resistably accessible
Just as problematic, if you know what I mean

Problematic language happens
when the arrows on the old road signs get turned around,
or town square moves from where the old Church Used To Be.

And yet, everyone who knows the town
can pretty much figure out what you're talking about

unless, you're talking about the problem,
then it's a bit more hit and miss, in a sense you know?
Then it depends on love and interest
commitment to understanding what you're already saying

Love is name given to so much
It's miraculously rarely unclear what is meant,
because of the everclear context

So much, everything, just a little affection
need to share rather than shared need
hunger, warmly treated, everjoyfully

Now's a chance for a little extra expression
now's a chance to get a little more off our backs and chests
in moment, relating can happen, from then on patterns can tend to set

too much anything, everything for too long
makes the anyevery thing irrelevant
or offensive, drained of precious context
precious warmth, concern or interest

Poles gets chilly, in the excesses of discourse
tension builds, in the spaces between the endless words
So bring me close, treasure the precious silence
into the warmth of ever-loving forms

Heat, in any other winter
might still sound better than anything, anywhere.

Chemistry
in any other language
might still happen, as long as the elements are There