To Wield Both a Pen and a Sword
To Wield Both a Pen and a Sword
I want to hold
Both a pen and a sword,
To find struggle within my words,
To make pain drip from the ink,
Trickling onto my palms,
Embedding scars along the creases
In the shape of stories and verses
That I wrote with smears of pollen
Harvested from the wildflowers
Sprouting from my heart,
By the bumblebees of my soul
Buzzing with hope.
The infinite marks of bravery
Will stay with me on the battlefield
Where I’ll wield a blade of courage,
My soul
Helping pollinate the strength
My pen engraved in me,
The determination
Driven in me by poetry,
Because a pen
Isn’t greater than a sword;
It is one.
The Voice
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