I found this in one of my books of readings and meditations and thought it was unbelievably beautiful (though it has, obviously, no ramifications for my life as it stands now, I wanted to share it anyway).
"Words"
Let's keep talking, my love. Words we have to spare: love words and angry words, and beneath them hurting, bleeding , dying words, and beneath them words melted by fire and hardened by ice, words of sadness and truth birthed from the cavern of tears.
And when the words are spent, heaped over the pages and spilled to the floor, let us read each other's eyes and see the chapters and the places where old bookmarks press the pages apart, so the book opens up to the old story before we can move on.
For you are all the love words I have ever heard and all the hurt words where the love is deepest, stripped back and bleeding.
But let's keep caring, ever so slowly building down the words, one beneath the other, getting closer to the truth and still deeper until you touch your words to my wounds, honor them, and feel the pain. Our wounds may not be healed by the touch of the other's words but are dignified by our recognition of their existence. Then and only then will the words mean anything; when we have used them up until the old meanings have been scrubbed off; when the wrong words have been tried and discarded and the right words have been spoken in a whisper, then let us climb down into each other's soul and rest there in the silence, and love.
- Elizabeth Tarbox
Life Tides, 1993
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