what succeeds

words fail
though
for good or ill
they
are what we have

I’m not sure what the language
is
for impulse
though I know we act
and maybe later
find
the words

and what do we think but
maybe nothing
or
perhaps
the saving words we
have because
there
are a few

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(I’m sorry, I rely on words that sometimes have two meanings and I mean both, which can go hard in translation; here I mean “succeeds” as to achieve and also as what follows)