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.
Copyright © Roger Thomas | Year Posted 2015
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