When Words Die

When words die they do not stop living

They rest for a while and reflect

In a leather bound scrapbook of pending

For the day they will have an effect

 

The word is an agony morning

The word is temptation at dusk

Words from the storehouse are warning

You’ve used up your consignment of luck

 

Take this word and bury it deep

Take this word and bury it deep

 

If it’s wasted it won’t be forgiving

Its revenge will be savage and slow

With assaults on your senses for living

To remove from you all that you know

 

The word will succeed without fearing

Your innocent, beatific smile

It will brand you with merciless searing

Igniting your soul as you die

 

Take this word and bury it deep

Take this word and bury it deep


(Available as a recording) 

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