Junior Mboweni

Words

Sticks and stones will break my bone

But words alone have fractured souls

Words, a thousand pictures 

A thousand cuts and sores

Death by sword

 

A deafening cry of an infant

Read in an instant 

Like a tempest temper

Words that tore out atria

 

Words that brought light

Words that brought life

Words that divided day from night

Words that gave the hopeless might 

 

Words to arouse 

Words to harken

Words that roused hellbound men to war again

Words meant and unmeant

Words that explain

Words we lament 

Words that say a lot and nothing at all