Scenes from the Journey: Words in the World

Sunday, June 30, 2024

Beware the word, more powerful than we think—

than a locomotive, even,

though who but Superman, these days,

is compared to locomotives?

Can words sway the world

as once they could?

Written words held strength,

moved mountains,

destroyed empires.

Now? Now, not so much.

How do we reclaim the soul and body

of our world?

Return to words, poets implore.

Bring back the word,

the listeners, the readers,

the lovers of life.

Will that suffice?

Pluto invites us to visit him

in the Underworld.

Now there's a world that still knows

the value of words,

spoken or unspoken,

symbolic to a fare-thee-well.

Let us hie ourselves Nether-ward

and attend to the disquieting words

of his darkness.

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Scenes from the Journey