They can turn your cheeks cherry red
or the corners of your mouth slowly upwards.
They can make you burst into a fit of tears
either from laughing so hard the pit of your stomach hurts,
or from how much it hurts to hear such cruel things,
when they feel like a knife straight to the heart,
or the unexpected sharp pain from one behind you.
They can carry the empty weight of promises that they can’t ever keep,
keeping you awake at night and stirring you from sleep (when you can’t help but still believe).
But with the promises that they can hold,
they can sometimes promise a whole world full of beauty
that only causes you to fall even harder and much more easily,
making you want to wrap yourself with all the imagery presented in every sentence spoken
like a blanket or a fortress they pulled together with string, built just for you to safely live in, all warm and cozy.
Words, if used wisely,
can say so much,
without saying anything or very little
to mean everything you’ve ever wanted to hear.
Or they can say a lot and mean so much.. of nothing at all.
The power of such simplicity.
And we yet we abuse such freedom of speech
uttering whatever foolish, abrasive thoughts that pops in our supposingly insightful minds
forsaken its dominance of the human emotion
snub and neglecting the harsh remarks that would inflict on one's heavy heart.
