! Poem Without A First Line

for no real poem has a first line any more than a real book has a first page it comes out of a dark lost forest or a bright unknowing cloud or an unbearable pain so unbearable that even if you wrote the poem on a piece of paper and threw the paper away it would ease the pain or a childhood so miserable that only a complete change of life could recognise one single beautiful thought or an astonishing moment when you knelt and prayed for the first time in your life to a god you did not know with words you did not understand for they were not even words or the moment when all the horror of the world faced all the love and beauty in the world and both were so taken aback that they could only embrace and later, speak or a nowhere and a nothing so stark that only poetry without a first line