She said...

                  Words, She said.


You're pretty good with words
she said  But words don't pay the rent
Words won't save your life & words are not life
you're pretty good with words
she said
 You have a good vocabulary & a nice way
of collating the lines
so that they appear
aesthetically pleasing on the page.
But words are just dumb sounds
she said
And that's what you have & it does what it do.
You have a certain way of jamming in one
after the other in cohesion until it makes a pleasant rhythm,
but it doesn't mean anything to me
and it doesn't mean anything to you either

You're pretty good with words
she said
but creating a numbing procession of meaningless sounds in single file
is not any way to make a living
nor is it any reason to feel so proud

You're pretty good with words
she said   But words are only symbols assigned
to define
a feeling     They are not
the feeling itself after all
You cannot produce a succession of symbolism in
lieu of  the feeling
Especially in your case where you use words
you don't even know the meaning of
to express your love

You're alright with your words
she said
yet you wallow in their definitions