..people talking. Prayerfully.

 

Txt2Me: The cover of the book text has been a great help to control my tongue.

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MyTxt2: Yes. Me too. Thanks for sharing it with me.

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There’s words that hurt and words that heal, they say;

and words that are just data on the wind, 

like readings from thermometer displayed,

but aurally, once used they can be binned

(or kept in vaults for statisticians’ work,

to look at trends, and learn from history).

But those first spoken words above, berserk-

ly from a diff’rent race or fam-il-y …

are not the machinations of machines, 

or mechanisms for extending “us”;

they come from diff'rent kind of humans, beans

that grow up like Jack’s bean s talk with our dust..

And these come not from talking parrot or,

an octopus or dog with pow’r of speech,

or horse or dragon that could speak words for

transferring data to beyond their reach.

They’re from a god, who is above this world,

who has a power of empathy with each

small lower creature in its purview curled

and doesn't need their stuff; it wants to teach,

or train them so that they, in their own way,

might realise their full potential to

contribute to the symphony, no pay

required, just the love of life, to woo

and speak the language of each other one,

‘coz their own worlds were entered into well,

then with their understandings, there’s the fun

of helping them to “choose” ‘gainst chaos-hell.

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