Heart words for your valentine.

Words, words, words… and more words. Head words are easy, you just open your mouth and out they come. Spilling all over the place…shooting up into the air like a hundred bottle rockets or a soda well shaken. Most people never even give them a thought (and you can tell). Sometimes you can capture a few of the wily little buggers and pin them onto a page… watch them wiggle till they’re dead.

Ah but heart words… those are hard… they are wound words. You have to drag those out by the vulnerability and let them lay shivvering in the light. They really don’t like the light and can you blame them? They are fraught with honesty and sensitive to rejection. You can poke them with a pen and make them bleed onto the page. It looks spectacular if you write with a red pen ( I know, I have written many a heart word in red ink).

They are all the same. If you let them, they can heal you but you have to love them as they are and be patient…very patient. The understanding of heart words is an art form that cannot be accomplished by the mind, unless of course the mind is open to the stirring of the heart. They are best you know – heart words – when they are whispered into the fading sunset beside a lake as the stars begin to appear, or else breathed silently into the air wreathed by smoke from a pipe (so as to render the life of the word visible). They taste delicious as a sigh, a touch, or as a soul filled gaze in the direction of someone you love.

Ah yes, heart words: love, loyalty, friendship, respect, admiration, tenderness, compassion, understanding, acceptance. You might have to drag them out by their heals, kicking and screaming and risk having them be misunderstood, but yeah.. they are delicious little rewards unto themselves that are like a really (and I do mean REALLY) tasty chocolate tidbit all rolled up in starlight and magic and worth every risk necessary to articulate.

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