silent treatment

Somebody's giving me the silent treatment and I've decided to take it and give it to myself.

I guess the only reason for the silent treatment was too much noise. Too many words.

Being one who loves words, I like to play with them, move them around and create different images and ideas. Taking that from me is hard. It makes me want to fight. Find the perfect words to get the conversation flowing again. Trying this formula and that formula...

There is a magic in silence though. Once you stop trying to fight it and fill the empty space with words it shows itself to you and says things to you the words couldn't.

I realise that sometimes I am so in love with my words, that I may not always pay enough attention to those of another. I realise that sometimes I am so caught up in creating pictures with words that I do not see what is staring me in the face.

And maybe what I really need is some good old fashioned silent treatment. To help me develop a new sense of appreciation for words.

So that I may not be so quick to throw mine away, and so that I may see the beauty in the words of the other.