28 May 2017

Stupid Fucking Words



Taliesin Myrddin's parents must have been inspired by the legends of the great Welsh bards when they named him. Words have power. Jeremy Joseph Christian was likely emboldened by the increase in racist and hateful rhetoric we've been hearing in recent days. Words have power. And words clashed when Tallesin (And others) stood up for what the Buddhists call, 'Right Speech,' defined as "abstinence from false speech, abstinence from malicious speech, abstinence from harsh speech, and abstinence from idle chatter." I find it horrificly symbolic that when Christian's vernacular was challenged by Talliesin, he slashed his jugular. Words have power. 'Mind' what you say and how you say it. I've never seen such a far -reaching and extreme example of how this can work in both directions. Lives were lost and lives were saved by words. We often think we're powerless to make change in this horrible political climate but how we talk to each other could change everything. Ramadan Mubarak.





Words
Words and expressions
All these confessions
Of where we stand
How I see you
And you see me
Dedications of symmetry
Together we will be
Forever

Promises are shit
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see it through
Stupid fucking words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate

There were no truer words than when spoken
Let that stand as it should
There was nothing left when broken
We grab anything when we fall

Promises are shit
We speak the way we breathe
Present air will have to do
Rearrange and see us through
Stupid fucking words
They tangle us in our desires
Free me from this give and take
Free me from this great debate


You will do what you do
I will do what I do
We will do what we do
Rearrange and see it through

Go where you think you want to go
Do everything you were sent here for
Fire at will if you hear that call
Touch your hand to the wall at night

Promises
Words 


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