Fired From Your Pen

All power in the caliber,
  not the number or the count

Its penetration deeper,
  when focused, not shooting about

The wound well placed is mortal,
  a shot not heard till then

But a gun’s not half as fatal,
—as that thought fired from your pen

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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