Temper Your Typing

You sit With an emotion at the ready. An idea, For good or foul Lingers. You pick up pen and ready yourself, Thinking of what you want to release. The opinion is within. With passion, You are obsessed to word what it is That fires your spirit at the moment. What you decide upon as clever May soon be released to all. The feelings about to be broadcast Are to be provided through your authorship. Before you begin Think on this, Will it be: A time to be proud? A moment of malevolence? A period to graze the field of revenge For the right expression To instill the proper wound? Or a plea to an unreciprocated affection? Before you bring your ponderings to ink, A bit of parental And protective advice. Insurance for your future, Offered from a caring fellow human. Before the writing, think. Are you Ready for the world to consider Your declaration? It's been advised By wiser people than thee and me, "Never put anything in writing That you wouldn't want to see In tomorrow's newspaper Or on everyone's data processing equipment." What you are about to expose Will be inhaled by each eye that reads it And exhaled by each Spirit that interprets it. Freedom of speech is wonderful. It gives you a chance to have A will of your own. But freedom is not unconditional. There are limitations. Only a certain amount Of the rope of independence Can be released to allow One to have their own say. When you set free your ideas You are responsible for The results. Just make certain The length of That rope of "your say", Isn't such That it might eventually Dangle its author.