words
This is a reflection and riff that has been sitting in my drafts for quite a while, since reading an acquaintance’s blog about her art form being words. I felt it calling to be posted, so here it is.
words speak life or death,
can create heaven or hell
for those who receive them.
there are the chosen few-
those whose expression is not
drawings or paintings or song or sculpture or photos
but who instead
traffic in words.
for us those words
clatter and scratch and claw
to get out
to name those things going on
inside of us
like Adam & Eve naming the animals
so it is with us and with words.
a picture may be worth 1000 words
but give us the words -
life giving & life taking,
reality creating & reality destroying
for it is in those words
that we bring meaning and bear witness
to what we see, hear, smell and feel
those things that can’t be brought
any
other
way.
