Secrets in Cypher

Words can inspire and sometimes be daunting

and leave us to wonder what someone has meant,

as we try to interpret, to find hidden meaning

yet never assuming that simply in reading

we’ll understand fully another’s intent.

Yet, were they inspired by some hapless reader?

Or a venting of long passed emotional  ties?

Or were they designed by divine intervention 

some dubious cause or perhaps condescension,

that leaves one to wonder if we should reply?

The grass is not greener this side of the spectrum

the scars that we carry weigh heavy some days;

so we wander the lines that are laid out before us

to shine light in our tunnel, inspire our grace–

while we tiptoe politely through each cryptic meaning

lest an ‘ass’ we become in assuming that we

would ever be topic of the lines that we read.

 

© Ginny Brannan 2021