Hi Nu - we never know what a person has been thru unless we have walked in their shoes. Sometimes the most humble have had an amazing and fruitful life. Good write. Thanks for sharing.

Kathy

Never judge a person you never know where they’ve been or what life’s taken or given to them . Great write

I read a lot along between your lines. How can I express what I see in just a few lines? Your poem had me weighing Words vs Actions. There are things that words alone fail to convey that action alone can...e.g Love.

I miss your poetry a lot but somehow coming here makes me uncomfortable to a certain degree. I think it’s more because I tend to deconstruct what I read in order to understand it. I guess it's due to the fact that I'm not a poet nor learnt to be one and do not see what most of you here see or refuse to see painted in words.

If there is one thing I feel very blessed with and grateful for, it would be the fact that I chose to stick to reading your 'Book of Life' right to the very end.

Everyone's journey is a beautiful story to be told, often judged by their covers. It is not as simple as admiring the different facades each of us wear outside. And though "you always have the right"...Words to describe, Words to paint; I agree that one really has to read your to the very end.

Words carried out or acted upon have more depth, value and truth in them. To "peruse what lay inside" in my eyes is to deconstruct what is in there; to know, to understand its most minute details. It’s easy to write/utter Words whose real meaning only us know because our own ways of thinking is limited by the sum total of our personal, cultural, social etc life experiences. What one sees and appreciates will always be different from that of another; it's why some continue reading past beyond the weathered pages while others are just too giddy, too obsessed, and believe their interpretation of one's Book of Life is the only interpretation there is. Often they judge by simply flipping pages or deducing/concluding after just seeing the first few pages only to throw the book away after a while!

I totally agree with you that Words have power. Words can describe, paint, sooth, taint and let me add, nick one's heart for Life. Yet words are also just words until they are acted upon. How we behave, how we act and react I believe is what gives meaning and power to written or spoken words. It's only then that Words can heal or hurt!

Thank you for asking "What kind of life would it be Without words that are penned?" I'd like to think that it could be an exciting life, a life well lived, a peaceful life, a life willing to take risks, a life of no pretense, a life that gives back, a life filled with love, affection and maybe even full of adventure! So many possibilities. That life could be anyone’s; maybe it's yours!