Kathryn Oliver | If The Lost Word Is Lost ... TS Eliot @festivalonearth | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent
If the unheard, unspoken
Word is unspoken, unheard;
Still is the unspoken word, the Word unheard,
The Word without a word, the Word within
The world and for the world;
And the light shone in darkness and
Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled
About the centre of the silent Word.

TS Eliot
excerpt from his poem Ash Wednesday