Words are magic
Sounds to shiver the spine
Sooth a crying child
Provide guide for the mind
Words are weapons,
Tools to strike and parry
Deflect and Deliver
Cut down and compliment
Words are power
Skills to create and destroy
Friends and enemies
Influence a whole crowd
Words are music
Lyrics to love and hate
To Sing and To hear
Make sense of the world
Words are masks
Faces to hide and show
Inside and outside
Subterfuge and smile
Words are emotion
Greens from red and blue
Truth and Beauty
Prison of stray thought
Words are everything
Worlds of Magic and Weapons
Power and Music
Masks of all emotion
Alex Herlihy – 2009