Some Words Are Just Too Sacred

/always/

is never a good word to be used

in love.

do not reassure her with words interlaced with

‘always’. she will be soothed and appear to be assuaged but

it will be a word that would come back to haunt you

like a bloodhound. it will sniff you out years later,

aroused by the dwindling affection you feel for her, the

utter dissatisfaction and insipid detachment in your relationship.

and it will devour you.

i will always love you,

will become the most fearsome boogeyman

under your bed and in your closet.

/always/

is for the use of immortals.

there are people who understand love (these are the immortals)

and there are people who vaguely grasp it, but are

too afraid or too ignorant to penetrate it

further. to delve deep into its core, and yet

never lose sight of the starting point,

to never forget what your heart might have forgotten.

and even then,

it must be a word that can only be written; it must never be spoken,

for the spoken word, even when whispered, can be devastating.