Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck Poet Political Verse

Healthtools Become Wealthweapons

LeftBrain uses words
like communal tools
and autonomous weapons

While RightBrain invites rhythms and patterns of sound
and silence
like poetry
and lyrics,
sometimes angry and frightened turbulence
sometimes loving and reassuring sibilants
murmuring Earth's quietness.

Of these,
LeftBrain weaponed words
cannot be truly free
speech to unwarned
so unprotected
listening libertarians,
messages fired against militant non-listeners
already armed to demolish
voices unprepared for retribution.

Healthy tools become deadly weapons
when used against
those they were transparently designed
to vulnerably serve
strength of LeftBrain truth
as RightBrain's chiming beauty.

Without these two or three,
depending on how you see
weapons and tools,
wealth and health,
truth and beauty
held proactively together,
free speech is any message
from any medium
tragically unfree.

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