SO HOLLOW

Useless are words
Without action
No sound so hollow
As that of an empty promise

Don't tell me you love me
Unless you know how to show
What is behind the beauty of love
The effort, sacrifice of selfishness

So often wrapping me up
In your sweetest of words
Only to abandon the meaning
For you leave behind sadness
When carelessly you disappear

How to trust
Words that flow so easily
From such gorgeous lips
When the end result is unfilled again

Be on your way then
Until you learn & grow enough
Finding out how to maintain
Connect to something beyond
Here today runaway tomorrow

For your words will never have meaning
Until the flow is surrounded by deeds
Seeing into the heart
Takes another skill of compassion
Surrounding the one with arms of comfort
Running abandoned now and evermore