Untainted Words

Let our words be pure

Lest we influence unduly

The tender shoots

The idealism of youth

The only hope of a future

In sight, there is no end

The constant streaming glut

Hardly a word not influenced 

Weighted by a finger on the scale

Tipping justice in their favor

A polluted sea of politicians 

Adding agendas to every phrase

Filling every space between lines

With their heartless blackened taint

No words left untouched

In churches dotting every corner

Extolling love with words of hatred

And seeking peace with words of war

If you will faithfully love our God 

These not like us, you must hate

Each generation finding their own words

Dipped in and dripping vicious vitriol 

Giving no respect for generations past

Offering no hope for one coming next

Only words, putrid and dying, they convey

Words of science relinquishing heart

Words of religion abandoning hope

Words of politics fanning raging flames

Words in a continuous warfare

Bruised, battered, and bloodied 

Poets

Find words

Untainted words

Unbridled words

Find our hope

From the Greek, “to make”

From the Sanskrit, “he gathers, heaps up”

What other purpose is more noble

A poem will not stave off the cold

Nor protect your eyes from the sun

But words 

Untainted words

The pillars of true reason

The builders of an altruistic society

Spring from the poet's heart

“Take with you words

Render the calves of your lips”

(From the prophet, Hosea)

Find the pure words

Change the hearts of kings

While politicians argue

And preachers rage

And scientists study

And scholars debate

Poets must write

Untainted words

Words against injustice

Words against hatred

Words against violence

Untainted words

Speak

Sing

Pray

Words 

Untainted

© Ron Simpson Jr. 

August 22, 2020