Words - Prose

Words

Be careful with your words today, world…

Be careful when you define good.

Be careful when you define evil.

Preachers and politicians use these for their own ends

But you are more than those

Let each word that rolls off your tongue

That made its way through the jungles of your mind

And vast experience

Leave your body with a question mark implied

A name

A title

A label

Make that agreement with the Universe

Tell it that you never want to know

That you want to be like it

Always expanding

Always exploring

Childlike in your curiosity

Turning over a new stone

And sometimes

A new leaf

That somehow

Looked interesting.

Let your four year old self

Possess you anew

Leave these powerful words

That have passed away into death

To the the spin artists

And the entertainers

Let wonder define your relationship

To both good and evil

Which

If God is True

Are two sides

Of the same stone

My prayer for you, World

Is that you see

That they are related

And that their foggy lines

Have far more to do with

The state of the viewer

Than a particular and consistent nature

True heart language

The language of God

Cannot be spoken

So… let our words

That offal of our minds

Be chosen carefully

Respecting their power

As levers

To affect other wanderers’ minds

And may we one day walk

With our hearts open

In deep understanding

Seeping into the cracks of our misunderstanding

Filling them in ways

That mere words and labels

Were never meant to do.

--Eric Aspen Marley

February 2016