Heavy is the mind that holds vocabulary Inside a chest of hollow sounds Sometimes the blood drips effortlessly Often, there is never an utterance No words kept in a precious order No time to speak What must be spoken At your feet lay twisted syllables Held only by chaos in tune How can you calibrate consonants When you cannot incorporate vowels Why would you try to create meaning If you lack the proper reverberations To know a simple meaning is to know the root Some yet follow a complex path In the search for the burden of words