- If words were enough
- then wordsmiths could architect the world
- and we'd have paradise or hell
- abundance or poverty,...
- ...all based on a poet's heart.
- Imagine greenery based on a prophet's dream
- Imagine, utopia on a preacher's scheme
- If only we could hear such voices with our inner ear.
- Would that bring joy or would it be a thing to fear?
- If only we could hear
- the meaning inside a mother's tear
- Would we find a way to stop our wars?
- Would we stop stomping on the weak among us?
- Imagine if cathedrals could grow
- seeded by a a preachers sermon
- What mighty edifices we could see.
- If only words could set us free.
- But our hearts are deaf and dumb
- And our ears are cloyingly numb.
- We only hear what we want to hear
- and we ignore, even what our prophets preach
- preferring false prophets to the truth
- Many preferring the genocide of a Joshua
- To the quiet love of Ruth
- When we hear the truth, we stone the prophet.
- When we hear their lies, we elevate them to a dais.
- So it's a good thing our words can't build things of themselves
- Or we'd raise prisons with our hatred
- And drive staves in each other's hearts.
- And half baked ideas would raise Golden idols that cannot long stand.
- For we speak a long time before we understand.
- ...and that is why words....
- ...are not enough my dear.
Christopher H. Holte, not sure when I wrote it. but I'm publishing it today 2/17/2015
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