WISDOM
Nothing to do with IQ or AGI
nor quantifiable.
How to define or diagnose
something essentially diaphanous
and yet innately sage?
Accumulative and dynamic
in the way old, old trees,
weathered, rooted and broken
with outreach and breadth,
provide succour to many;
they are intransigent land-marks,
stop-over sanctuaries and beacons
for and of dignity, grace, resource.
It evolves more from failure
rather than being clever, winning.
The newborn radiates exo-luminescence
primeval sapience beyond any words
as does Silence, the nightsky, loving.
It is the unseen thing beyond shaping
or conceptual definition, use.
A synthesis of varied experiential quanta
melded, stewed and seasoned
with humble listening, kindness, respect,
inwardly and out.
Open-minded consideration
being no intellectual excercise
or learnable skill
but wisdoms own quintessence.