Words

Words are remarkable, they speak in many languages,

tongues, dialects and with differing intellects, some are

profound, others are not.

 

Whether  written, spoken or otherwise told, words can be loud, quiet ,crude or delicately elegant, dignified or maybe horrifying, but all carry purpose to disclose, the meanings, clear or buried, not to be denied.

 

Words can describe and define discourses among all mankind, greatness comes to some, others forgotten, kingdoms can rise and some will fall, hearts and minds won or lost the victims of competing causes.

 

Placed in the hands of a villain words can create deceit and

deviousness, disarray the driving ends, defeat becomes the rule to stay such insidious ways .

 

Loves are found, grown, or defeated by chosen nouns,

adjectives can split love's realm causing a rift, and when put to skillful use verbs are mighty as a sword, their deeds guiding unfolding vows, the past, present and future now told for all to behold.

 

In a parent's words tenderness and care are laid, giving form for future promise, children passing on all they have come to learn, virtue born is goodness grown to be shared.

 

Some with stature and those without speak words of wisdom, thoughtful expressions uttered to stir the soul, raise the spirit, or offer prophesies for humankind's course.

 

Then there are words that linger in the heart, those any mother holds or a lover knows, hindered, struggling, seeking to breach binds blocking paths for expressive ways, words stirring within, creating a numbing awful pain, release sought must come so fulfillment can be found.

 

All these scenes which describe what words can do, are nude, naked and raw when stripped of driving verve, words do not move, static objects they be, only when delivered from the heart words are powerful, moving, mighty, and strong.

 

Words give voice to gravity, song to melody, expressions to love, and tears to sadness.  Raising passions of all, words birth acts of anger, those of sorrow, those of joy and those of solemn thought and meaningful prose.

 

The greatest words of all are those that arise from the depth of man's soul, delivered as one voice from heart and mind, giving discerning tell, words avowal purpose to all.

 

Words must be crafted, chosen carefully, not carelessly

bantered, tossed as though cheaply found about.  Words are rich, deserving of honest thoughts, worthy of noble wish or want, possessed of trusting purpose, stirring poignancy and admirable virtue.

 

Indeed words, no matter form taken, are gifts of beauty,

difficult at times to capture and put in place, they require

careful voice to come alive, surviving only when shared

with another...as have I with you.

T. Condon, Jan.'99