Words

What if words
Could save my life?
Would you spend your time
Telling me every word you knew,
And even the ones you didn't?
And when you ran out,
Would you string letters together
To make up new words
To keep air in my lungs?
Would you buy thousands of books,
Read them to me aloud
Just to pump me
Full of new life?
Or would you just say
"I love you"
Every minute
Of every day
To keep me here,
With you