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title: "A Poem About Words"
date: 2008-04-21T15:18:00Z
tags: []
topics: ["philosophy", "poetry", "language"]
image: img/castle.jpg
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A short free-flow poem I wrote a long, long time ago:
> ```
> Words beg their commission from a hidden king, whose graces they resent.
> Emissaries, soldiers, courtiers, troubadours, and priests,
> they are sent forth from his castle to bid the world take heed of him.
> For without their tireless march,
> the master would suffer alone
> in his windowless tower,
> dark, brooding,
> and voiceless.
> But without his strength,
> those flickering lights of mirrored meaning
> would themselves go dark.
> ```