words

people learn how to talk at a young age.
it begins with mumbled sounds and calls to mom,
it begins with tears and swollen eyes, from hunger.
yeah it begins like that,
and continues until words join hands and march together, linked by periods, commas, and semi colons.
then, words connect grammatically and sentences begin to carry more weight, more meaning and substance,
and children grow up to be articulate and well-versed in the latest intellectual dialects.
 
people learn how to talk and they master it,
but communicating
            telling the god-damn honest truth,
                        just saying it
                                    in words, in sentences,
                                                like in all those fancy books on everyones old college syllabus
communicating
c o m m u n i c a t i n g
is easier spelled than done.