One Day, Poetry Will Rule The World

One day, poetry will rule the world
And build a palace with the bricks of nouns,
It will make servants of supple verbs
And command an army of fearless idioms
With piercing swords of rebellious words
It shall bleed falsehood dry and expose truth
In literary battlefields of glorious conquests.

Its school of wordsmithery shall be the grooming home
Of children still sucking their mothers' breasts
With musical alacrity, it shall sing songs of hope
Unto the despair in the hearts of men
The walls of fear and agony will give way
To the wrecking balls of courageous puns
And gleeful hyperboles.

One day it will save the world from itself
It shall preach peace and love with scriptures
Written by the prophetic pens of Wordsworth and Okigbo
It shall rule the world with its own poetic wisdom
And clip the wings of evils that roam the earth
The universe will become a paradise of its own
Where we will all be one in rhythmic solidarity.

One day, I say, poetry will rule the world
In the minds of mad poets like me
And in the confines of wishful poems like this.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[TL Boehm]

well done. I have always believed our words wait for us in our future and are so much more powerful than people understand.

[Master K-tops]

Thank you for your kind review.

[Leslie Philibert]

Fine write, another example of great writing from Africa ; congratulations...

[Master K-tops]

Thank you, sir.

[butterfly desire]

This was very good I know. what poetry can
do because it saved me from. depression

[John Destalo]

Interesting and thought-provoking piece. The thought of connecting poetry/poets and ruling others, do those roles go together, what will become the spirit of the observer and exposer as it focuses on taking action.