Editorials

These words you see here, falling off the page;

these thoughts, now tipping slowly into the abyss;

these stiff opinions, backbone of the piece,

look harmless now, but in the night they build

coarse boxes in my head, 

(excluding or including? -- you decide),

each box a judgment, constant commentary:

yes this, no that; you're in, he's out;

you're right, she's wrong;

you're not enough, it's not enough,

there's not enough, and never will be.

No.

They're only words, and yet they have such power to divide...