A Play on Words

At our last creative writers club meeting I was given an assignment of writing a story about "A Play on Words."  This could be on any subject as long as I was playing with words.  Did you know that there are over 100,000 words in the dictionary?  Bear with me, I think you are going to enjoy reading this.
I'm going to begin by making a comparison of any one of those 100,000 words to that of a simple leaf upon a tree.  The branches on a tree create thousands of leaves.  When the cold weather arrives the leaves begin falling.  The wind may whisk them straight ahewad, to the left or to the right.  Many of them will touch and make a connection.  Some will touch leaves of another tree and make a connection.  The leaf that touches no other will die alone.  Think about that, it rarely happens.
So where is the equation?  First we must define a word.  What is a word?  A word is a word and nothing else, at least until it is paired with another word.  If a word is written and is not paired with another it will be useless, have little meaning and eventually will be trashed and just as that leaf upon that tree it will die alone.
Probably as many as 75 per cent of the same words have been used in all of the stories I have written.  I might add that I doubt if I even use 1,000 of the 100,000 words that are available.  I could probably say the same for others that write, including famous authors.  Writers do not invent words as they write.  Tame words are simply moved around to create a totally different meaning.  They are at times changed for the same purpose.  That is the miracle of words.  The shifting of words abruptly change story lines.
There are several words in the dictionary that are spelled exactly the same but have totally different meanings.  There is even a descriptive word for those words.  They are called homographs.  Here are a few of them:  There - Change - Play - Run - Foot - Right - Step - Class - Bill.  No wonder it is so difficult for foreigners to learn the English language.
Let's return to the pairing of words.  When a single word is paired with another and another it begins to gain strength.  Soon the words become sentences.  The strength and power they could yield would dep;end on what words were used and how they were put together.  They could simply be two, three, four or five letter words rendomly chosen.  I will use nine words here for an example:  With - You - In - Die - Your - Do - Still - Not - Music.Those words were shuffled around a bit and eventually came together in this fashion.  Do not die with your music still in you.  I do not know from where those words were originally put together that way, but I do know that it was my brother, Wayne that uttered them to me.They were not only powerful words, they were life altering.  Eight of those words are known as homonyms while one of them remains nameless.  Those eight words are spelled differently and have totally different meanings than their counterparts, yet they are pronounced exactly the same.  Here they are:  Dew - Knot - Dye - Withe - Yore' - Mucic - Still - Inn - Ewe. 
Notice that the word still is the only one that is not a homonym.  Could that mean that I may still have a few songs yet to sing?