Path to the Moon ✓

Words and Wounds

Life is more about words than we
even know. Words can create in-
visible wounds, phantom pain in-
flicted upon the heart. They can
burrow themselves beneath skin. They
can paint sceneries within minds—
sceneries that have never ex-
isted at all, or that exist-
ed once upon a time. They make
up all thoughts and memories and
are buried with us once our lives
are snuffed out. Words use many sen-
ses, because they can be seen, heard
and felt—not by fingertips, but
by souls. Humans can even fall
in love with each other based on-
ly upon the words uttered from
our lips. I cannot help but won-
der if things might have turned out dif-
ferently if I had said the
right words. I did not even know
the right words then—but I do now.