Some throw themselves to fire Some to a raging wave We throw ourselves at words Doubly as dangerous…but brave We string along a sentence We bleed line by line Scraping along defences We grind the grit and rhyme Defying the babblers battle Waging war with a world where words have no meaning or power when they’re hurled We’ll never decay or go rotten We’ll be writing till we’re read They may shut us till we’re forgotten But they’ll quote us when we’re dead