What are words?
What are the things we speak?
The things we utter every time we open our mouths?
What are the things that are written on this page?
Written in book after book,
Text after text
Line after line
We call them words.
But are they really?
I wonder if you have the answer.
Words
Words
Words
What are they really?
Sentences are made of words.
Words are made of letters,
And letters are made of shapes.
But what are these?
The sentences we say,
The words that we choose.
The things that we read,
They all have meaning.
But why?
Does everything in our lives have meaning?
Do the words written on this page mean something?
Or are they just rambles?
Shapes strung together to form letters,
Letters written side by side to make words
Words put in a certain order to form a sentence.
A sentence that might not even make sense.
When we think, we think words.
Letters.
Numbers.
Sentences.
But are we really thinking this?
Or is it something else.
We see.
We feel.
We touch.
We smell.
We think.
And listen.
If you listen close enough,
You can hear the world hum.
But what is that made of?
Is it words?
Sentences?
Letters?
What if it isn't made of any of these things?
What if it's made up of more than just the questions we ask,
Made of something bigger?
How do we find out?
I don't think we can.
Because we say to many words.
Words that lie.
Words that hate.
Words that fear.
Words that cheat.
Words that hurt.
Words that love.
Words that smile.
Words that laugh.
These are all words we say to each other.
Every day.
Do we think about them?
I don't.
But I know I should.
Will that change anything though?
Can the words that we say change the world around us?
I don't think so.
But you might,
And that's okay.
Because you have your own words.
They words that only you can hear.
The words that only you can laugh with.
Smile with.
Cry with.
I have them too.
I hope seeing these words helps you find yours.
But even if it doesn't,
You don't have to worry.
They are just shapes made to form letters,
Letters put together to make words.
And words don't have to make sense.
They are just words.
