Pencil and Paper

It isn’t the words that speak to you, but the meaning behind them

It enchants a small mind and makes it brighter

It sparks interest in a place there was none before

It gives you rhythm and rhyme

It makes you think of the impossible and grasp the unthinkable

It makes light shine where there was none

It gives hope to the hopeless and determination to the weak

It makes you thirst for a brighter future 

It makes you run farther or it makes you turn around 

It’s like color to the blind and music to the deaf

It restores light and removes darkness 

It teaches and it inspires

The inspiration flows like music in a symphony

The smooth notes floating through the air 

You can feel the power as it’s read

You can feel the impact as it’s heard

Poetry is like no other

It gives life to the lifeless

And restores motion to the motionless

Even a hard person cannot resist its power

Instead they get up and run with it

It brings tears to dry eyes and dries the tear stricken face

You can feel it in your veins and your bones

There’s nothing like it

You can choose what to do with it

You can enchant or you can scare

You can bring hope or you can bring despair

You can bring tears or you can bring joy

It’s all up to you on what you want to portray

No one can hold you back if that’s what you want to say

There’s no limits on what you can bring

All you really need is imagination 

There’s no telling to what you can do with a little pencil and some paper

You can bring a colorless world to life 

There’s no need to see it but you can believe it

All you have to do is close your eyes and you can feel it

You can live in an inexistent world because of the words of a small poem

Written on the pages like lyrics to some music

And though the world doesn’t have to know

You can be the master of your own

Bringing color to a hopeless situation

And a life to some who don’t have one

And that is the power of a poem

Simple but real words on a page

Can do more than words can ever explain

And just a small smile can be the reason

We right with such passion

And that’s how we know that with pencil and paper we can do anything