Thursday, November 6, 2008

War of the Words (Poem Four)

What a monster my vocal chords

A sentence screamed like a soaring battle axe

At a man who threatened my existence

If I don't keep them tamed

I might say something so useless

Monster enemies will gobble me up effortless

I think I'll stop speaking

Am honorary verbal suicide

For now I'll just write

Words so redundant and trite the ink flops dead

Like a soldier on a battlefield between lines

Every form of communication feels like war zone

Where verbs, adjectives, and nouns are deployed

Little atom bombs in the air

I feel my fingers itching for a pen

I'll stab every last one of them

But speech and script descend and despair my ideas

Like modern technology

No

I'm just too rusty

A saber rotting in its sheath

Shrapnel slinging ideologies!

Bullet flowing oratories!

I'm cutting off my ears and tongue tomorrow

And absorbing the last rounds of your stupidity today

My final wounds on my final day

Scars to show what a monster you are

Oh dear...there go my words again

Bombs away!

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