Penmanship

What weapon holds the most potential?

To me, it is the pen

Though literacy may be essential

The effect is most telling then

With words one can easily slander

Twist truth and lies and ties together

With naught but strokes of ink and thought

Reality is changed forever

In print the flow of ideas is changed

Spun round and round as you will

Those who know not know all to know

Though they may not understand still

Though swords and guns can end your life

They cannot put end to your mind

For it will persist even if you cease to exist

When another reads your words in kind

But words are not weapons, in fact they are tools

Used for deeds both well and ill

They take up all spaces and reach many places

Until the “I”s all have their fill

Consider this page, and what it can do

What are you doing right now?

No matter who you are, no matter when it’s read

I’m sure I can guess somehow

You’re reading these words, some portion of me

You’re letting them through all defenses

You take what I give, so effortlessly

And let it change your pretenses

Consider the power I have in each line

Look what I can do with these words

“Now think of sweet candy! Now think of a lime!”

“Now think of all these things absurd!”

Though might may be right, it is thoughts that pull strings

To control the actions you take

I say pen over sword in all manner of things

With limitless things you can make