The Power of the Pen

Contained within the pen

Is the future and the past

The words declared

Imagined in ink

Ascribed to society

There is a power

Within the pen

One’s thoughts

Transformed into words

Define the sexes

Define the races

Define us.

For centuries

Men controlled the pen

Prescribed our roles

Restricted our bodies

Restrained our minds.

Understanding this

We now know,

She who controls the pen

Controls the power.

What will you write?

Two videos caught my attention today.  The first was a video from HONY in which a mystic discusses the “control of the pen”, and second was a clip of Pat Robertson discussing the need to dismiss Saudi murder concerns because we’ve got a 190 billion dollar military arms deal with them.  It was another realization that this “pro-life” religious leader actually cares less about lives and more about money.  It’s time we give everyone a pen—let us define our own lives, roles, bodies in the ink of identity. https://www.facebook.com/humansofnewyork/videos/2052973148110108/ https://crooksandliars.com/2018/10/pat-robertson-shrugs-saudi-murder-cites