Poetry Month Challenge: Forsake Careless Words of Death

I English showcases Joseph Conrad, Dickens, James Joyce, Tagore Conrad, once a Pole, Joyce may be Irish, Tagore -Indian of course In political terms, England rocketed after 1558, besting the Spanish Our 'lingua franca' changed from Spanish to the Queens English II That is all the good news, "I am afraid to say," - Did you just hear me spout negativity Conjuring up spirits,yes FEAR IS A DARK SPIRIT That creeps in casually, as in pat phrases ("Watch and Pray") III Proverbs reminds us, "Life and death are in the tongue," And "I could kill myself I didn't know this early in life." Again, the words that allow spirits against LIFE a welcome Recall this, "My back is killing me," and "I would die for my wife!" IV Poets, there are stock Phrases: "idioms." They made me an idiot About the Spirit world, shooting myself in my own foot (to boot) So, I pledge to forsake words that speak of death and jovial killing Because the Being inside us, the BE-ING, is also a "Human Doing"