Words, words, words

Can be profound

Can be absurd

Can be political, sardonic or satirical

Be sublime

Rhyme all the time

Be blank verse or much more “LA LA LA LA” lyrical

Words can shock you, knock you, mock you, and rock you

Being stuck for words can…writers’ block you

Words can be the latest gossip that you’ve heard

If you’ve drunk too much they can be sssluuuurrrrrred

Can be amazing, engaging and incredible

Can remain etched in your brain, permanently indelible

Can change the way that you perceive

Your ethos, your ethics, how you behave, what you believe

They can be side-splittingly stupid, “HEE HEE” hilariously hysterical

Words like `one’, `two’ and `three’ are much more numerical

Words can appeal to your insanity

Or touch your humanity

Can be so deadly, destructive and divisive that they stop your flow…

They can make a lover stay or go

Turn a friend into a foe

Turn peace into war

Build you up

But bitter words can be the final straw

(Is that why she walked out your door?)

Homer Simpson’s favourite word is “doh!”

Words can take out your most powerful enemy with a single blow

Words can make you GROW

Into a better person

Or shrink and shrivel you into a worse one

They can convey banality, ingenuity and ambiguity

They can produce anxiety

Make you worry, stress and sweat

Make you doubt

Make you regret that we once met

Or make you laugh or cry till your underwear’s soaking wet

Shout “Buy! Sell! Buy! Sell” and they’ll increase the national debt

Simple words can even be understood by your pet: “SIT!”

Do you know all the words to this week’s number one hit?

Words can infringe your human rights

Set your imagination alight

Make it ignite

If you’re cheating in your spelling test then keep your words out of sight

Words can make you want to Google their inner meaning

Reach for a dictionary or a thesaurus

They tend to be repeated when you join in on the “CHORUS!”

Words can send you to sleepzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Especially if you think that talk is cheap

@#”#@$% swear words are often blocked out with a “BLEEP!”

Words can be illegal

They can be libel or slander

They can unconsciously be copied from a song by Bananarama

They’ll help Obama launch a verbal attack on Osama

Or vice versa

Grammatically incorrect words can make you speak worser and worser

They can be weighty, mighty, tiny or diminutive

Can be actually absolutely alliterative

Or lead us to sometimes split an infinitive

Words can make you relax

Till you’re calmer

And calmer

And calmer

So you can comfortably slip into your pyjamas

And spend whole weeks meditating like the Dali Lama: “Ummmmm”

Our words are the sum

Of who we are

If we couldn’t say what we wanted to say

We couldn’t even describe a wordless day as ` greyer than grey’

And when I’m long gone

And I am history

These words will go on and on and on

So you can still unravel their mystery…

Words, words, words