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Wild Words

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Have you ever read something profound?

Have you ever, for just a moment, felt as though the words meant something more than just what they were saying?

As I sift through countless generations of methods, beliefs, and final testimonies of individuals long since passed their graves being in existence, I feel their words move past my lips and into my brain, nestling there amongst the files and souvenirs I've gathered with every passing year.

There is more to the story of a paper and it words then man will ever fully understand.

There is something that will always be withheld from us, taunting us to dig further until we eventually find that we have learned nothing but the surface of what the writer wanted us to understand.

But the passionate desire to reach some sort of understanding, some scrap of truth in the rubble of a past generation. We look for the meaning in the patterns of the fog that has covered the age, the methods to the madness of the eras.

Even when no more sense can be made and we have, indeed , pinned down a meaning like a dead butterfly, we continue to stab at it, running it trough till it crumbles to its offenders feet and fades to nothing more than ashes.

It's a gruesome deed these people commit, and I cannot help but cringe to hear them speak of the literature I hold so close to my soul.

In hopeless flings of chance, I'll set another possibility rampant upon the court, send them chasing for the meaning all over again, saving it some years.

I hold the words close, running my fingers over the pages. I try not to capture the language it speaks, but rather, letting it speak for itself and interpreting it as I will, as it is suppose to be done.

Nothing is set in stone, and nothing is stated of literature.
I can't help but feel some sort of enlightment when I read something profound, like Shakespeare, or Jefferson.

I assume it's what a high feels like.

Have you ever really looked at those first words of the United States 'Declaration of Independence'?

"We hold these truthes to be self evident, that all men are created equal, and are endowed with their creator with certin unalianable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Do me a favor, please; write those words down on paper, slowly. Watch the way the pen moves, hear the words in your own head, feel them in your heart, say them aloud if you want to, and tell me what you feel.

You can try it with anything if you want to. Shakespear is always good. JK Rowling also has some very profound moments in her works (I LOVE THAT WOMAN!!!!)

Tell me what you feel though. I want to know if anyone else out there can feel this.

I hope so, It's such a wonderful thing.
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fiction-freak's avatar
Wow! This is deeeeeeeeep!