The awkward relationship between mere words and concise actions

By Stanley Collymore

It’s not so much what you say, even when it’s often repeated,

that I either will, or would ever want to instinctively take

any notice of. On the contrary it’s what you really do:

courageously, genuinely and morally, that matters

considerably to me. Since words on their own

and clearly without any evident substantive action on

which they can either be logically or meaningfully

based up are relatively cheap; and, therefore,

are as futile in their delivery and, equally

so, attendant pointless application as

the manner in which they’re quite

often glibly and narcissistically

rolled off the speaker’s tongue.

© Stanley V. Collymore

6 September 2019.

Author’s Remarks:

Oratorical skills and the concerted deployment of convincing arguments to grace such an exercise are fine in their own way; but unless they’re substantially and compellingly backed by hard-nosed action coupled with a committed and unequivocal determination to radically, positively and permanently transform whatever the genesis of the initial problem was in the first place, then the choice and usage of words, however mellifluous and comforting they might symbolically appear, is utterly useless!