20/52: too much vernacular

too much of the world's story
is told in the vernacular.

there is something lost
when we use the same language
to talk about grocery shopping,
mopping the floors,
and paying income taxes

And to also exhort the divine
of being alive:
of love's first spark
of the secret three AM fears.

we need a language of magic and sacred
that allows us to
speak the words of the wind,
sing the songs of the waves,
invoke the mystery of the flame,
and sit in the silences of the stones.

the world is less
for the words.