Four letters.
Like love
and pain.
Inflection means everything,
context defines like few others.
At once a compliment on the way that you move
across a crowded room in your red dress
and I whisper in your ear
"You're fiiiine".
And then, again, an impasse to end a conversation.
Or to dismiss a question of concern;
To mask an inability to actually, honestly answer the question:
How are you?
We grasp to connect;
To put a tidal wave of mixed up emotions into words that can relate, can express ...
Out of pain
or love
We defer to another day.
To share an honest answer
when we can put a better face
on the facts.
B & J!