Tom Wright Poet Lyric

Guard Your Tongue

Guard Your Tongue *
Written: by Miracle Man
1-23-2020

Gossip is not unlike a heat seeking missile,
that employs the tongue to do it’s selling.
Things born at heart are seldom kept secret,
because the tongue has an unkind way of telling.

The tongue receives, what an angry heart sends,
Angry tongues are symptoms, of an even angrier heart.
Once harsh words are launched there’s no making amends,
the tongue is more than just another mouth part.


it’s better the heart be enlarged, than enraged,
for no medical help exists for the latter.

* James 3:8
But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. 

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Kim Rodrigues January 23, 2020 at 8:43 AM Like a forest flame, the tongue tries to find its way around our morality, looking for pathways. Often we need a binder clip clasped to our tongue for we look the fool with our anger, even “our wisdom ”