NECESSITY

Why explain

this compulsion?

It has no founding

in reason.

The meanings

of things

have all

run away

like a fleet

of frightened gazelle

their morning drink

interrupted

by the scent

of a lion.

Mortality

necessitates

irrationality.

The only

remains

are

tracks

of lost

footsteps

sentences

without

signification,

sounds

without

meaning.