ALL WE HAVE ARE WORDS
by Ward Kelley

All we have to air our hearts are words.
We might try touch, but that is only vocabulary
of the skin, and seldom conveys what we

most want to say. Eyes express much
better than flesh, yet they cannot measure
the depth of what the heart means to say.

The heart must rely on the lips, and all words
are a poem, for they always express that for which
we yearn. All of them. Listen closely to every word.

Our hearts are constantly at work, and each word
we utter is a clue to the poem of our lives, and if we
could recapture every word, from birth to death,

we would know the story clearly - -
that for which we yearn.

 

WARD KELLEY, the author of 1466 pieces, several poetry collections, and a couple of CD's, has been published in Adirondack Review, Melic Review, Paumanok Review and several more reviews, as well.

 

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