Has the Pen lost its Influence?
As rulers once mighty,
now fallen, routed
Forgotten to time
when power was knowledge
and writer was King
Words passed on,
sent down from bygone days
Preserved,
not lost to mortalities reap
Endowed in volume for subsequent erudition
Significant statements,
worthy of note,
recorded to guide future leaders
To change the course of history,
to turn our page of understanding
To shape,
our views, our direction, our feelings
To scribe defining moments of
human triumph or aberration
in histories pages of account
Like a speech,
spoken by a great man;
His dream,
to unite his people in a common struggle,
now sealed in composition forever
Now,
unfortunately, forgotten, abandoned
The world of today has lost its want
for the force and pleasure of perusal
The quill,
once mightier than the sword;
Now eclipsed by the torpid visual medium,
languidly stealing any rite of progression
or self development
The people now lost in a void of inactivity,
watch aimlessly into unread oblivion
Sep 21, 2016
Sep 21, 2016 at 3:34 PM UTC
Has the Pen lost its Influence?
As rulers once mighty,
now fallen, routed
Forgotten to time
when power was knowledge
and writer was King
Words passed on,
sent down from bygone days
Preserved,
not lost to mortalities reap
Endowed in volume for subsequent erudition
Significant statements,
worthy of note,
recorded to guide future leaders
To change the course of history,
to turn our page of understanding
To shape,
our views, our direction, our feelings
To scribe defining moments of
human triumph or aberration
in histories pages of account
Like a speech,
spoken by a great man;
His dream,
to unite his people in a common struggle,
now sealed in composition forever
Now,
unfortunately, forgotten, abandoned
The world of today has lost its want
for the force and pleasure of perusal
The quill,
once mightier than the sword;
Now eclipsed by the torpid visual medium,
languidly stealing any rite of progression
or self development
The people now lost in a void of inactivity,
watch aimlessly into unread oblivion