Russian Nesting Doll - or "For the Initiate" (Geometric Code)
Russian Nesting Doll - or "For the Initiate" (Geometric Code) ________________________________________________________________________ Oh God... Stop while you can, Before you get to the last Matryoshka doll. Stop, b ut don't stop searching, Not u ntil you know she's there. How will you know? Allow her to stand before you. Let her rest in the inquisitive Theoretical bisection And remain forever A possibility. If you let her stay, She will remain whole And unbroken Like a stolid, stoic Whole note Sung by the invisible future Which surely will come to be . If You break her open, A fractal fissure Will invariably lead To the thousand mirrored-hallways, Or so it seems. I say this again--pointing to the Russian doll -- Leave her be And do not turn the page Or read another line Because you do not know If it is the last Or what it all means....