Getting to the lake in us

poetry is getting
to the roots of us all

getting into that lake
in us to find what
there are in it

looking at the sun
and tracing its footsteps
to see how it travels
to our soul and
communicates with it

poetry is going
to that part of us
which once spent
a thousand million years
to acquire the faculty
of speech and reasoning
from the workings of the wind, the moon, the sun
and the whole solar system

poem by John Tiong Chunghoo
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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