Words

Source: jazzadvice.com

Words are like days:

coloring books or pickpockets,

signposts or scratching posts,

fakirs over hot coals.

Certain words must be earned

just as emotions are suffered

before they can be uttered

- clean as a kept promise.

Words as witnesses

testifying their truths

squalid or rarefied

inevitable, irrefutable.

But, words must not carry

more than they can

it’s not good for their backs

or their reputations.

For, whether they dance alone

or with an invisible partner,

every word is a cosmos

dissolving the inarticulate.

~ Yahia Lababidi

______________________________________ 

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. ~ Wendell Johnson