Words and Feelings and Feelings and Words

It’s one thing to know what words mean

It’s another thing entirely to know how they feel

To test its weight on the tip of your tongue

Hold it there a moment, and taste it

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I once spoke to you with feeling

With careless abandon

I gave away pieces of my heart

And soul and mind

But always, always I took care

To give you the best part of me

My words

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I told you that your eyes

Were a gateway to heaven

When you bothered to look at me

I told you that your smile

Was painted by the gods

While i told myself I should be grateful

For the gifts that are rarest

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In truth that’s what it felt like

Like the sky had opened up and let all its Angels out

Just so they could watch us embrace

Like the Universe kept on expanding

And time kept on shifting

And the world kept on going

Just to provide us with fuel for our conversations

And the flames soared around us

Yet to me, feeling fool that I was

They felt cool, refreshing

And afterwards I wrapped myself in the embers

Like it was my favourite song

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Now, I talk to you in truths

In yeses and nos and a million words in between

And none of them mean a thing

Because neither of us feels

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