What Writers Can Do [Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace…]

Poetry: Anytime, Anyplace, About Anything – What Writers Can Do

By, Donna M. Monnig

Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt was to write each line as a declarative sentence and the last line to end in a question. For Day Seven I give you “What Writers Can Do.”

What Writers Can Do

 

A writer can do anything,

            anything they want,

                        anything at all.

A writer can create a world

            or destroy one.

A writer can enlighten the truth

            or blind the world

                        with lies.

A writer can build people up

            or break people down.

A writer can memorialize one’s

            success or eternalize

                        one’s shame.

They can start a war, or end one.

            They can all but never die.

A writer’s words can live forever,

            on printed pages, speaking

                        volumes, in books.

A writer can possess one’s mind

            and consume one’s thoughts. 

A writer can be a millionaire,

            a hero, and a bad guy,

                        all at one time.

A writer can travel through time,

            living in the past or future.

They can change history, create the

            future, and erase the present,

                        with nothing but a pen.

A writer has absolute power to do

            anything. They’re dangerous.

A writer can put people in a book,

            (people that annoy them)

                        and kill them.

Writers can murder people …

            and get paid for it.

(They can kill

            with the flick

                        of a quill.)

Why would anyone risk,

            a writer’s wrath?

 

©Donna M. Monnig

NaPoWriMo prompt: Day Seven