Weighted Words

WEIGHTED WORDS

After rhyme declined in 1999

the people began to weigh their words.

Rather than timing the rhyming literally,

they found sound has an affinity

for a much larger harmony.

A word’s weight is different than the

sound of the thing.

Some words echo when not said out loud

Some words rise like mist off the page

Some words cannot walk alone

Some words act differently

Some words find old souls

Some words can swim

Some words are for the future found

Some words were never there

Some words have music in them

Some words without a sound

Some words cannot be taken back

Some words will never be forgiven

Some words are misunderstood

Some words fit perfectly

Some words are poetry

For now most people believe that

the new cannot be true.

Old ways are the only ways for them.

But, when things have changed like this,

there is no going back

Not long ago the shortest distance

between two points

was a line.

Now the shortest distance

between two points

is a fold in space.

Roads are filled with cars being driven

by drivers looking over their shoulder,

moving backwards to wherever they are going.

I say look where we are going

and describe it.

The future we are living in

requires new phrases that will become clichés

not old clichés that will become phrases.

         August 21, 2009
         Arlington, Virginia