(Poem) The Pen and the Sword by Mary Saracino

Goddess sculpture I made, photo credit: Mary Saracino

Some say the pen is mightier than the sword

but a sword can silence a pen-holder’s tongue.

I do not wish to be a martyr for any cause

only a voice for peace, equality, justice;

my ink is the milk of human kindness

the blood of those lost to greed and war

the tears of those silenced and maimed;

my pen is a staff of compassionate outrage

a banner held high for the higher-ups to heed;

words have the power to tyrannize or transform

I know the pen-holder always has a choice: 

be a citizen of the world

in service to all that is liberating and true

or a soldier of isms and ideologies;

when your hands embrace death and destruction

you can’t dance in the arms of hope.


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