Theirs, to me, is the most scintillating language The one without words Without voices or verse, just Meaning- a cosmos of it, I can see In their naïve smiling eyes, their baby fingers, their Ebullient “oohs” and “mmphs” and gurgles, Their springy laughter that leaves echoing In my ears, an intricate array of reminiscences On the unexplained enigma of A lost childhood; of the complex beings They’re fated to reduce to, Of the most familiar language I once knew But never learnt - stupid me - The unparalleled beauty of simplicity, sans The scholarly sense and sensibility that men worship And of the tacit expressions they conduct so robustly Without speech or learning, Filling me with their contagious emotions Immediately as I come in its contact.
Man’s emotions are complicated, that’s perhaps why They’re so compatible with the simple sound of innocence.