WORDS
The mystery of words
Spaces between meanings
Meanings between spaces
The syntax of words
The anatomy of words
The pin point precision of a full stop
Cutting the flow of a thought
Arriving at a conclusion
The punctuation of words
Questions, exclamations
The many pauses and stops
That are celebrated by colons
Semi colons
The unending river of commas
The linguistic root of words
Often beneath the soil
That nurtures it
Plucked out and thrown into a foreign land
An alien language
It withers or morphs
Adjusts or deludes
An identity on words
Laid naked on the skeleton of race
Nation, language, culture
The flesh and bones
Of relatives, memories, siblings, parents
Tribal totems, hanging on words
Strung in sentences
Encased in a language
Sent miles over seas
On strained desperate
Phone lines
Identities in words
Solidified from the cooled molten heat
Of centuries of experience
Of a tribe, a people, a place
Calmly answering the questions
Who am I?
Where am I from?
What do I believe?
What am I supposed to do?
The classification of words
Odd blocks of meaning
Uncomfortably placed
Disjointed and schizophrenic
To fit an A to Z
Of a dictionary
The literacy of words
Smelling of ink and dyes
Parchment and crinkled paper
Worn and used
Sometimes unused
And worn
Unexplained
And written
The taste of words
Honey on a tongue
When the sounds roll over
In a phonetic dance of pleasure
The smell of words
In pauses between pages
In thoughts between pauses
The memory of words
In bookmarks marking time
From a day when a page is left
To a date when it is reopened
The surgical knife of words
When laid on a slab
Someone is told
To state explicitly
What he means
The passing of words
Like subways in the night
On the dark subterranean tunnel tracks
Of the mind
Never stopping or ceasing
Just changing tracks
And running the same routes again
The end of words
The final stillness when they run dry
And when the fertile goddess of knowledge
Waters the soul
With its own language
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