Language has always been with us for we are
gregarious creatures who tend to communicate
and have done from the time the crucible of
humanity threw off the shared physical traits of
our animal origins to differentiate ourselves as
protohuman and beyond mastering sound to
match thought and gesture. So many languages
languished and disappeared while some survived
and served to separate us from one another. But
the universality of the language of emotions
reflect our origins and genetic endowments
for we all know the language of fear and devotion
hope and determination, anger and rage, love
and compassion. They bind us in a silken manacle
of defiance against those among us for whom the
language of emotions retain only those elements
consonant with envy, greed and domination
repressing those soothing expressions of faith and
understanding that sustain the persecuted benign or
deadly as they reach out to others for comfort.
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