By kevin urenda, kluless70@hotmail.com
Date: 22 January 1999

What are words?

Unless the heart is a known
quantity you can never
know if words can be the 
bellwether of intent
or even a suitable gauge.
And even then, you must accept 
them on faith.
There was a reason your elders
always chided that actions 
spoke louder.
Hearts change, even when words
are cast in stone.
They have always been immutable
in my heart, my mind, my life.
Love, Devotion, Commitment,
Forever.
Not simply words to me,
but modes of conduct,
ways to live my life.
The words are merely the 
vessels I use to convey the 
essence of me.
But beliefs change too.
Even my beliefs in my own words
Have changed,
though they still connote the 
same meaning, and the same
contents of me continue to 
live within them.
I used to believe that three little
words, composed of eight letters,
conveying the essence of
my heart, my mind, my soul, and my body
could lose their meaning
If they were overused
Because they were so precious
And contained so important a part of me.
I have since revised my beliefs.
If anything, those eight letters
contain even MORE of me...
But they must be
spoken, written, 
used, demonstrated, lived
EVERY second of EVERY day.

1/19/99