Words

Yeats so simply stated ' Words alone are certain good. ' And to the great poet So highly rated I try to listen, as I should; Yet Being an untrained novice Such as me With verdant hopes of much improvement - oh that I would - I beg to slightly differ with W. B. And offer here my humble opinion - if I could - Good certainly is not words alone, For without humanity To read and to write How would they ever become known? - For without the good of people Who of these words would care Ever to be heard, or even shared? No, the good does not alone from words arise, Rather from human beings Whose entire story Such words do attempt to comprise....... - Words written in this time May even the way To a distant future find, But not on their own And never alone. For it takes people's - hand's to write - eye's to read - heart and soul to understand The purpose, and the need. Let it here be shown Words alone Are not the only good, They need human beings To give goodness and life To their reason and meaning For they are merely the vehicle By which man's true good Is found and understood.