Your Words

By Norman Mike Nelson

There are only words that hold me in place.

Not the sound of your voice or the glow of your face.

You see only words help us carry on

when someone special is gone.

Words are memories, good ones I say.

They give you direction and help us walk away.

Some people forget quickly and some never will.

Why? Who knows because it’s better than a pill? 

Think of the nights when you can’t sleep

And that quick prayer to God that runs so deep. 

We know God can’t help us all the time,

But there’s comfort in those words that don’t seem to rhyme. 

Like the “Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want,

He leadeth me beside the still water.”

It is at this point that the words hold you.

Not to a place, nor a time, nor a space. 

They hold you because words last forever.

They come from love, from your heart, and from the Lord above.