The older I get,
the more I realize
how important words are
for re-connecting us
to who we were
before we were born,
who we're meant
to be in this life,
who we're meant
to be to one another,
and who we'll be
in the end,
all of whom
are the same.
© 2016 Todd Jenkins
Thank you for this as I go to be with a woman close to ending her life -- I will talk and she won't even understand my words, just feel the flow of them over her.
ReplyDeleteThose are the sacred moments when we are free enough or desperate enough or both, to realize that there's more to our words than our own or others' understanding, in the sighs too deep for words that fill in the empty spaces between the words.
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