Finding Unfashionable Words? Poem by David Taylor

Letters dancing on the page
cannot make a rhyming sage.
Words they dance upon a stage
making ideas all the rage.
If this were another age
you would think this poem strange?
Letters dancing all engage
in the thoughts that are today's.
We cannot write words in the past
and see if they will last.
Nor can we write today
what in the future we may say.
But what we would most dearly find
are the words that say right now,
what was true when time began
and will never fade away,
until the end of days