Invisible, they waft through <br />the atmospheres, evanescent <br />yet ubiquitous. Weightless, <br />they potentially possess the <br />gravest relative density <br />on earth. <br /> <br /> <br />For when read, or heard, <br />every thought and emotion <br />of everyone who listens or reads <br />becomes attached to every word. <br /> <br /> <br />Words thus thicken and widen <br />and swell, dragging <br />the soul away from the <br />seamless sky and far, deep away <br />into the dark, worried tombs <br />of our tired present earth. <br /> <br /> <br />Imagine, for a moment: <br /> <br /> <br />If birds could talk, <br />how, on earth, would they <br />be able to fly?<br /><br />David Kowalczyk<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-specific-gravity-of-words/
