Words

A poem describing the power, miconceptions and chaos that can ensue from words.

                                                          Words

             

 

Words are splattered everywhere that you go

Some of them, from hype, exponentially grow

 

Adjectives, prepositions, verbs, and nouns

Rhetoric, propaganda and all of their sounds

 

Repeatedly embedded into all of our minds

Especially from advertisers and all their kinds.

 

Lawyers craft them in a scheming sly

So they can exonerate and mollify

 

While tabloids catapult them through the sky

For exaggeration and to glorify

 

The shock jock rigs them to explode

With an anxious delight to see them corrode

 

Politicians use them with tactical spite

Launching them in debates with all of their might

 

Using the media to line their sight

And land their targets from morning to night

 

The salesman  wraps them in delicate lies

Mending wings to deception and hoping it flies

 

Diplomats employ them for convincing persuasion

And engage them defensively to avoid an invasion

 

They are used in the streets as signals and slangs

And become the lifeblood of factions and gangs

 

But words lose their meaning more frequently

As it seems they’ve lost their integrity

 

 

And we push them ever so recklessly

To the point they have no dignity

 

So be mindful of depth in your hindsight

And respect your words before they take flight