Hopeful Words
What is the magic of a word?
Marks on a background
Meaning something
Sound waves on an ear
Ringing true
For all the ways we fail
To understand
For all the words that fall
On deaf ears
Isn't it much more the miracle
That words communicate at all?
I believe this suggests
By nature, we connect
Or else these marks, these sounds
Would suggest nothing more
And yet, even when they don't
We think they might
We believe they ought
Mean something more than they do
These thoughts give me hope
That none of us is really alone
That if we only pay attention
Try, reach, listen, and speak
We have every reason to believe
That someone else may speak
Something ringing true
To our eyes, our ears, our hearts
jsm 1/25/18
posted by Jim Macdonald @ 9:38 PM
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