If words were clothes
If words were clothes,
Then what do we always wear?
Are we usually garbed in kindness and courtesies,
In pleasant how-are-yous and thank-yous?
Or are we often shabbily dressed in verbal attacks and gossips
In loud how-could-yous and whispered did-you-hear-abouts?
If words were clothes,
Then how could the most beautiful ones—
Made of the silky fabric of love,
stitched with the thread of tenderness—
Be sometimes tucked away and kept hidden
In the closet of fear and indecision?
There they remain hung, day after day,
Gathering dust while we say,
“I will wear these clothes someday”
But what if someday never comes?
What if after days turn into weeks,
Weeks into months,
Months into years,
We realize that these clothes—
Left hanging and unworn,
Don’t fit us anymore?
Why did we not wear them
Even just once, instead of never at all?
If words were clothes
Then I would examine my heart
As I would inspect my wardrobe
No tears will be shed over unworn clothes
It’ll be a different story with unspoken words
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My first attempt, in my blog, at poetry. I don't know the rules--about lines and meters and ryhmes. I'll probably cringe when I read this again after many years but I just felt like wearing, I meant writing, this today. :-)
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12 comments:
poetry usually bores me to tears but yours is good enough to post on my office whiteboard :)
Wow, Olive, that's enough encouragement for me to try my hand at poetry again someday. Thanks! :-)
'te beng, it's an excellent first time. =) i'll be expecting more. --butch
Thanks Butch! Was trying to access your site but couldn't. What's your address? I'll link you.
galing! i'll share it with others. your site is one of my favorites... ",)
merilionsarrow.blogspot.com =)
i tagged you. pls visit my blog for the questions. thanks! ",)
Hi Karina. Thanks for the kind words. Sorry for the delayed response. Haven't been using the computer while at home, at work, quite busy. I'll visit you in a while. :-)
hi, beng. i haven't visited for a while. i see marami na akong na-miss. this is very good, huh. i hope it's okay to share it with friends and to post it at the office for everyone to read.
Hi Ritch, long time no hear from you nga. Sure, no problem. I hope this poem will help them start thinking and prompt them to say what desperately needs to be said. :-)
if words were clothes... mine would be soiled and shabby :( but for the miracles that the Great Launderer works, i'd be better off naked (read: mute)
very nice poem, beng :) as always, heart and skill intertwined to make a beautiful post. keep at it!
If words were clothes, then I remember you more
for the nice-looking pieces from your wardrobe than
the soiled and shabby clothes you mentioned about.
Thanks for the comment. Keep on writing (more often please) too. :-)
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