Words Struggling
Words suffocate
If kept breathless between
The front and back cover binding.
Like flowers surrounded by weeds
Purposeful words today struggle to be valued
Amidst the memes and acronyms
Catering to impatience and minimal attention spans.
Word-subtext of meaning,
Like the soil rich roots of flowers,
Go unnoticed as
Sudden realization of the surface
Makes color and fragrance
All sensory awareness
Can handle.
And often totally forgotten,
Towering above the flowers,
Reality reveals the sheltering roof of darkness
Drawing us inward.
Yet…
Like words trying to motivate us to turn the page,
We might not open the door,
Or develop the foundation,
Or shape the stones to support the home.
And if not…
The house might be closed up now
Like a book relegated to the top shelf of a stack,
Gathering cobwebs of idleness,
And dust motes of disregard.
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But your observation of multitasking social networking is so true. 150 character bursts of shortcuts does not make a thought very deep at all. With all the richness of language available, so many are avoiding it altogether with phrases like, "you know?" As if we already know what they are trying to say or write, so we don't have to in our lazy way of communicating.
Ron