Words are wonderful. They can make you Click with the world They describe. They connect. They define. They distinguish.
But those precious toys Are much more than this: They can imagine, They can shape your mind, They can communicate, They can convey emotions, feelings. Every little shade of your soul Can have a word to express it.
But sometimes people do not think About those strange tools. And so words lose meaning. And so they do harm. And so they divide people. And so they are removed From the ever-flowing flux of life And turned into Political artifacts Religious dogmas, Or prescriptions Of an ambitious moral system. When this happens Something in the wonder of words Is lost.
What's that missing miracle? What's the cause Of that Fall Of language? Life is the answer. That's what missing. That's the ever flowing source Of words themselves.
When you remove them From their natural place, They die Like flowers in a dark room. Meaning is lessened, The world do not click. You give meaning to meaninglessness And you can not Give meaning To what meaningless is not. Triviality seems meaningful, While meaningfulness seems not.
But when everything runs In the right way, Wonder flows from every corner And the world seems very much Like an open book.