I was listening to NPR the other day, and they had an award wining poet on the show, he said "Words are cheap." That instantly brought to mind the opposite, "Words are expensive". Then, the skeleton of this poem popped into my head and it started writing itself. I'm no poet, but I liked this idea.
WORDS
Words mean nothing
Words are cheap
They have no cost
Words are light
They float effortlessly around us
Words are fleeting
Spoken without thought
Chosen at random
Words are harmless
Words wound
Words are permanent
Their meanings never forgotten
Permanently emblazoned
Words are heavy
Their weight makes us sag
Words are expensive
Their cost we are sometimes unprepared to pay
Words mean everything
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