Five Words

17 Tishrei 5773

Five Words to Describe Yourself

The paper said “choose five
words.”  It took six words
to ask the question. ‘Is
something wrong, miss? Are not
these five small lines enough?’

Well, it won’t be enough!
I am not just five
of anything- not ideas, not
pictures, and certainly not words.
I don’t think anyone is.

No-one that I know is
quite this or that enough
that all the many words
in the world but five
do not describe and cannot

be part of what not
tells you who he is,
but shows you only five
small windows not clear enough
to even see through words.

This cage is of words.
Walls of stone could not
even have the strength enough
to hold back what is
between you, me and five.


Five words is not enough.