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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.
> ```