This Again

The words of the  mind are not

the words of the heart.

                                That's the difference

between craft and art,

fantasy and dream,

infatuation and love.

                              Two questions often confused:

What do you feel?

What do you think? are not the same

question.

              So much harder to get the illusive,

often more silent, language of the heart

just right.

              So much easier to begin

with A and conclude with Z.

For a long time, I spoke the language

of the mind;

experience has corrected me accordingly

to my joy and sorrow

                               though always I hear

the admonition, "Don't throw the baby

out with the bath water!"

and that echo of laughter.

-Byron Hoot