The Fall

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There is no where in you a paradise that is no place and there

You do not enter except without a story.

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To enter there is to become unnameable.

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Whoever is nowhere is nobody, and therefore cannot exist

except unborn:

No disguise will avail him anything

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Such a one is neither lost nor found.

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But he who has an address is lost.

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Who would dare to go nameless in so secure a universe?

Yet, to tell the truth, only the nameless are at home in it.

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They bear with them in the center of nowhere the unborn

flower of nothing:

This is the paradise tree.  It must remain unseen until words

end and arguments are silent.

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~ Thomas Merton

(excerpt from The Fall)

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