Gravity

Gravity
 
It is a privilege to learn something
and a responsibility to know it.
 
Knowing comes with weight
            over time
a gravitas of substance
that is held in the field
like lovely stone
            sure
            solid
            present
 
Maybe that’s why it’s called
the cloud of UNknowing.
 
Unknowing
            floats.
 
It’s beautiful too as it
            murmurs
            into and out of shape
mysteriously aloft in
liminal space ‘midst pulls
            of gravity.
 
Not yet knowledge
unknowing is held in silent trust
not yet able to be shared
and still without heft.
 
Not knowing
insubstantiates itself,
until,
it knows.
 
Then with speed and certainty
knowing drops to earth,
plants itself in a body
            of wisdom
is held gently mute
until it’s time
to share it
with those
privileged to learn.
 
originally written April 12, 2015