Feature "Editor's Choice" for February 2025 "BEFORE YOU SPEAK" Run your words
through a filter
of compassion,
before letting them
charge out,
unattended,
through the portals
of your
changing moods...

Hurtful words
can cause
permanent scars...
Once spoken,
they cannot be
taken back,
despite the regrets,
apologies and
making amends...

Before you speak,
put your feet
in the others' shoes...
Ask yourself: Are they necessary? Do they have a redeeming value? And, What would be the backwash? Words that promote evil,
engender discord,
deepen the wounds,
kill the joy,
and place one-sided enjoyment
over love,
are better left unsaid... According to an old
Arabian proverb,
"Your tongue
is your horse, if you respect it, it will respect you; and if you humiliate it, it will humiliate you..." © Nasser Goudarzi U.S.