Is a pause bereft of meaning...?
When you speak, and you pause, looking for the holy content of the next meaningful articulation, does the pause mean anything...?
When you pause for the other person to respond, holding (and if asthmatic perhaps, counting) your breath, does the pause mean anything?
When you stop someone in the midst of a divine pronouncement (for each human being thinks as much of his/ her words), does that pause have a meaning?
When the other fellow human being/s silently listen/s to your words (of wisdom or otherwise) pausing his/ her/ their instinct to shed holy light of analyses at the end of each utterance, does that pause have a meaning?
Does it ever seem that a pause is not an innocent void, but an emotion, at times too intense to be handled?
Sometimes, in fact, a pause seems so much more meaningful than the words which tend to subsume its existence. For words are logically assessed articulations performing within the web of defined language - almost like trained monkeys in an act of trapeze. Pause is the lost child of intrinsic human wilderness. Considered or ignored, it has no ambition to become a word!
When you speak, and you pause, looking for the holy content of the next meaningful articulation, does the pause mean anything...?
When you pause for the other person to respond, holding (and if asthmatic perhaps, counting) your breath, does the pause mean anything?
When you stop someone in the midst of a divine pronouncement (for each human being thinks as much of his/ her words), does that pause have a meaning?
When the other fellow human being/s silently listen/s to your words (of wisdom or otherwise) pausing his/ her/ their instinct to shed holy light of analyses at the end of each utterance, does that pause have a meaning?
Does it ever seem that a pause is not an innocent void, but an emotion, at times too intense to be handled?
Sometimes, in fact, a pause seems so much more meaningful than the words which tend to subsume its existence. For words are logically assessed articulations performing within the web of defined language - almost like trained monkeys in an act of trapeze. Pause is the lost child of intrinsic human wilderness. Considered or ignored, it has no ambition to become a word!
