A grain of sand - pearl or glass

A grain of sand – pearl or glass

 

You have a gift,

Use it for good.

As you write of love,

Let it not be

Merely to hypnotise.

Let it be

Not to misguide

Or swindle,

Hoodwink or mislead;

Entrap, ensnare or beguile.

Let it not be for the vile

For deception,

To seduce, manipulate

Or hoax.

 

Let the words you scribe,

The love you describe,

The pearled layers of incredible possibility

In your stanzas of poetry,

Be of a love grounded,

Planted, rooted and held

In what is responsible

What is honest

What is kind

And that which holds harmony

Between soul, body and mind.

 

She does not deserve

To be baited, strung then cut off.

She does not deserve

Words crafted

From a selfish heart.

All of her emotions,

And her being,

That your words seductively

Enfold as a grain of sand,

Should be nourished into a pearl

And not glass to shatter.

 

Your power

With your words

So dangerous

If used to deceive

In malicious purpose.

 

If your intent is not true,

Step back with your words

And your poetical tune.

Leave her be;

For a man without sculpted poetry;

For a man with

Every intent

Of seeing her nurtured

Into the jewel she is.