The Magic Of Uncertainty

When he tried to explain death

he was lost for words.

This was not regrettable.

Some things  by their very

nature defy explanation.

Speaking of the aforementioned

life had taught him that Uncertainty,

can on occasion, conceal brilliant

options  that one might have hardly

considered, and that might very well

have been sorely missed should they

be harnessed by the strictures

and banalities of language.

Derek Earl Houghton