Transcendental Longing

It’s not that words can’t say what
You want us to say for you
When you’re going on about

Being beyond words, beyond
Language, which you can only
Say you’re beyond in language,

When you’re going on about
Transcending mere words, language,
Which you don’t have to transcend

At all, after all, having
Been born before you had words
And perfectly capable

Of breathing beyond language
With a good whack on the head.
It’s the language that’s longing

To somehow get beyond words,
Somehow get beyond language,
Somehow manage transcendence

Past being only language
Percolating through bone shells,
Thus get beyond you as well.