Part Of The Same Language — Summary

MessieralInspired

It’s not that important the language in which I write or in which you read me, we are part of the same language which we learned by dreaming so many motives.

We will play to decipher the stellar light, while poetry opens our wings, blurring the sadness of us like a story that once filled us with emotion.

And a comet will come to contemplate the prodigies of every shared dream, the hope, of each new awakening, that lives entangled in each heart on…

As a world in which the word is able to dilute each weapon.

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Messieral starts by brushing aside a question we might expect to matter: what language a poem is written in. The speaker says it hardly counts, because writer and reader belong to a larger shared language, one learned through dreaming. That idea of connection runs through the whole poem.

From there the mood turns hopeful and a little wistful. The speaker imagines reader and writer playing at reading starlight while poetry lifts them, easing their sadness until it feels like a half-remembered story that once moved them. A comet arrives as a kind of witness to all those shared dreams and to the hope that comes with each new morning.

The last line, set apart, carries the poem's wish: a world where words are strong enough to dissolve weapons. The tone is gentle and idealistic, more a longing than a claim. The speaker seems to believe that if people truly understood one another, conflict would lose its force.

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