words just words?

now
I'd heard nothing before
just never so abstract

with the full force of facts
and figures of speech
it was a firm return to form
and
function
be damned!

and that's fine
but
I've never been much for finality

truth be told
I've never been much at all

it seems
I dream
too loud
laugh
too wrong
and suffer from a heart
unfiltered

(who says)

"you
can
ask the stars
for more than a peek"
and
"why wait to speak
until spoken to?"

(while your rolled
eyes say)

"that's
so
you"