A Different Kind of Language

What is a different kind of language?

Accents apart,

a different kind of language

emerges.

 

Born into inheritance.

Names.

Origins.

Stories.

Beliefs.

Dreams.

Silence.

For a time,

we learn

the languages

we are given.

Belonging.

Achievement.

Approval.

Measure.

Then...

another vocabulary

appears.

Quietly.

Not through instruction.

Through observation.

Through wandering.

Through wonder.

Not every language

is spoken.

Some

are carried.

Every experience

leaves

a stroke.

Character,

like form,

begins

long before

it appears.

Some things

cannot be counted.

Only cultivated.

A heart's

true net worth.

Perhaps

every life

develops

its own language.

A different kind of language.