The little darkness will lift by morning.

The larger darkness will pass in time.

The pangrammatical supplement (as knowledge is to power) of perception is expectation. A perception is to a fact as an expectation to an act. "We are faced with the problem of error" (Quine).

You cannot know a world you cannot change.

You cannot master a history you cannot abide.

(What we master is never the world but our history. What we know is never our history but the world.)

There is a reality
at the heart
of this thing:

a body

where the person
in the mind
becomes the ideal.

We can't just say
the silence speaks.

We have to listen.