Words
led me into books,
and, through them,
out into the world,
searching,
questioning
what would
complete me.
Words
became a road map
for me,
out of pain,
and a manifesto
I could
believe in.
Then,
they brought me back,
and took me
deep inside myself,
where I found
all the
answers.
for Magaly's prompt at Real Toads: to describe what words do or have done for us.
It's possible to fall in love with words, and even to be loved back by them.
ReplyDeleteour lives depend upon our relationship with words:) Awesome Sherry
ReplyDeleteMost of us aren't lucky enough to find all the answers on the inside, Sherry. You are one of those wise souls whose tapped into the earth's consciousness. You are quite the character, love you and your poetry!
ReplyDeleteI am in love with this. It perfectly captures the magic of words.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed words lead and direct paths
ReplyDeleteNice on Sherry
Much💝love
Yes! All of this!
ReplyDeleteWords are what differentiate humans from other species...and it is only within that we discover what they mean to us. Nice.
ReplyDeleteThey are the beginning, middle, and end, aren't they? The show us things, push us towards the right questions and answers... tell us all sorts of things about ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI love the circle you show us in your poem, how wherever we go, whatever we need, words can get us there.
Yum!
There is nothing words – and the love of them – can't do!
ReplyDeleteWords are brilliant things - especially in the right hands
ReplyDeleteThis is so concise and wise, I could quote every line back to you as being the ones that struck me as most meaningful!
ReplyDeleteWords are exactly those roads... perfect to be guided by them.
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautifully deep and wise, Sherry!💖 I love that words can be a road map out of pain.
ReplyDeleteIt is no mistake that spell means to put words in the right order and is also a thing of making magic.
ReplyDeletewords are a mapping of the soul and spirit ... and speak in a silence of the heart, enriching the mind ..... as above, so below .... and knowing when to seed and when to sit back, and let it grow ....
ReplyDeletemagic in this piece :)
Yes and yes, quite so!
ReplyDeleteYou depicted the life that's embedded in words. They never die.
ReplyDeleteYou said it all Sherry! The kind of privilege those talented in their choice of words would always know.
ReplyDeleteHank
Really? Did you really find all the answers?
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