words have me enthralled and have owned since i was young

they take me places i have never been and help me understand what i have learned

i let them hold me captive because it is with them i am free, to travel across the universe or sit with them in a tree

i have found so much comfort with paper and a pen…………..when i wasn’t ready to let others come in, i gladly let them visit me

we would sit and share for hours……..they would help me find peace that would elude me when things would baffle me

i could not imagine a life without them for they greet and challenge me, everyday to seek new words that clarify the world as it turns my way

if you have not come to know them, they are a source of hope and gain, they honor me with blessings that are difficult to explain

i have friends that ask very little and give so much back and all they want is to be spelled correctly and pronounced with clarity and flair

captured by words