September 25. 2017

CAREFUL WITH THE WORDS

Our words mean different things

at different times. As E.E. Cummings

would have put it: Be of words a little

more careful than anything. He said

that of love. I’m saying that of words.

An “I love you!” can mean very different at a

25^th Wedding Anniversary compared to a

Wedding Day - so too a so, so day in the 16th

year of a marriage with a quick “I love you”
while looking at the mail instead of the other.

So words mean different at different times,

but especially words that once were sweet,

but now have become meaningless  -

looking back on the moments of a life and

a relationship that has become a blur dull.

© Andy Costello, Reflections  2017