These words
      you read
In a foreign tongue.

It was before consciousness of memory began
      that you were weaned
To The Language Of We And You
From your native
Silence.

In The Language Of We And You,
      You
Must hide, change, or die.
We speak it
      to participate in the creation, modification, and communication
            of The Agreed-On
And evade questions that have
      as their one answer
The instantaneity of mind
That is Understanding.

Why evade Understanding?
Because its unitary answer
      to the questions only Being itself can ask in Silence
Eternally negates the Particularity
Held to back Memory as the only currency valid
      for transactions in the tiny room
            that is the field of The Agreed-On
And therefore only the death of Silence
      can feel like Living
To those who live, birth, kill, and die
      for Memory.

Why can there be no memory of Silence?
Because Silence is the eternal Instant
      in which Creation occurs
            and What Is exists—
The absolute Sentence
      its pure Noun identical
            to its pure Verb
                  uttered once
Without beginning and without ending—
Because Memory
Is foreword, preface, afterword,
      and commentary only
Of translations to and from a received tongue
      from and to The One Sentence
            of a forsaken native language
That can be returned to
      at any time and any place by anyone
But cannot be learned, remembered,
Or forgotten.

Questions for the translator:
In the subsumption by What Is
      of all possible energies, relationships, and events
            in the tiny room of The Agreed-On
Where is freedom?
Where is sorrow?
Where are the progeny of the dead
      from the wars fought
            for the achievement of glorious Memory of the one
And the eternal banishment from Memory
Of the other?