Thursday, September 21, 2017

Acta non verba

How do you love?

With words?
Vapor
Air
Noise
Build on air?
Remove the words...
Your love shows its quality.
Empty.

With actions?
Solid
Earth
Silence
Build on earth?
Words are superfluous...
Your love shows its quality.
True.

Time. Presence. Essence. Effort.
Caring. Understanding. Affection. Communication.
These are words... of action.
These actions build love.

"I love you."  Effortless to write.
Three words. Less than three seconds.
The naive believe.

A man may speak the words. What draws love into existence and galvanizes it are the actions that prove the heart. If only words are given, without corresponding proof, then the words are void... hollow.

A man may never utter "I love you." But observe...
And the truth will reveal itself.

Oh, how I would rather experience the pleasure and pain of life through silent love, while holding a lover's  steady hand... than read skeletal declarations of love in epic language!

From the mundane to the thrill...
It is in the presence of love that life has greatest meaning.

Who truly loves?
The one who declares in sporadic word?
Or
The one who acts according to words unspoken?

How can love be shown?
Acta non verba.

Known?
Just watch.