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