the shortcomings of words

words can infer…………….but they cannot hold……………….they cannot touch………….they cannot feel………………..only describe……………………..words can inspire but they cannot do………..hands do……………feet do……………….mouths repeat words that have been taught to represent…………………..give me a word that adequately describes horror…………….no words could convey only guttural sounds that cannot be formed or controlled………….that leap forth as shrapnel mangling where they pass……………………………….words hints of things but cannot capture the pain of desire or the ecstasy of achieving a formidable goal…………….

words try as they might to paint……….but in the end they are mere scrawlings of children drawing on sidewalks in the middle of summer…………….only to be washed away after a heavy rain…………………

words are attempts to pole vault over mountains using a toothpick