Indeed, we are conditioned to find sense through language, although this rarely makes 'sense' :) I guess words constitute the language of sharing what cannot be shared, the sensory experience before perception has packaged it for mass distribution. If music be the food of love, then language merely supplies the notes served up in the instruction manual *sensational smile*
An enlightening autopsy here Rules - good to 'see' you again...

Rula, again you have created verse that gets everyone thinking. Language, whether verbal, non-verbal or symbolic is powerful. The idea in the 4th stanza was the hardest for me to grasp until I took a language differences course. Here "light" not only equals the action of turning on the switch for physical light, but also the quest for knowledge. You have created a clear progression from symbol to thought to language.
~Chelle~

Use The Force Rula, and you won't need language or light, and then join me in The Dark Side...for I am your father. ;o)

This piece unfolds on two levels as we read line by line, raising questions and answering them, in the process, beneath the surface. ‘Is it the habit of language
Overpowering the body’s sensing
Interpreting with the conditioned mind?
……speaks for the predominance of the mind conditioned with concepts and language. Concepts are always known based on the stored data’s, words too are known imbued with predetermined meanings, depending on the word experience and the association with the words and the recipient of the words. But the SENSING is neither conceptual nor predetermined in its meaning. But the mind shall interpret it with the known and predetermined words and meaning. The predominance of the words shall prevail and the direct knowing of the body will be ignored. When instinct can register and express
Without the aid of language
Why do I have to think with the known
Expressing WHAT IS?
Yes, why? And this ‘why’ evokes a ‘how’. How can one interpret what we SENSE, register and express WHAT IS in no uncertain terms, in a language known with our conditioned mind interpreting it on the concepts predetermined? Yes, the mind keeps on verbalizing based on the known where as the body KNOWS. I am happy that you are in the process of switching on the light. You are in the process of letting your intuitive center register and express. Only if you can shut this conditioned mind so used to internal dialoging. This apparently simple piece of yours is deep and subtle.

I really like the concept of the self that you challenge here. Are we who we are by perception(sensation), or by consciousness? I often think about that myself. Language helps us understand these concepts, but is that really how they exist? That leads to our freewill(switching on the light) that is at the fork of infinite causes. I think everything that we sense, dictates our mind; its all we really have to rely on in this world. Sometimes that can even fail us. Great read, Rula. :)

life itself is no less than the conversation that takes place between the brain & the heart. when one says go...the other goes. action being the result of that very conversation...we process for minutes sometimes something as simple as turning on a light switch. here we have a wonderfully deep poem about a trivial concept...it takes time and depth to find words like these. so well done!