Languages

Perhaps the language of words

is overrated

There’s really only so much words can do

You can use words all day

and not be satiated

Words can leave you worse than empty, too

There are some other languages that can’t lie:

What’s said with touch,

with movements synchronized

with laughter, gesture, easy time together

and signals sent across from eye to eye

consider what we can communicate:

the hum of home, the grace of shared space

the heart’s current, and its precious weight

the way our love so naturally reciprocates

Words may frame thoughts

but still be thin

It takes the other languages

to fill them in.

©Wendy Mulhern

March 25, 2012