If I Could Show You by Corey Harvard - A Poem from AllPoetry


 * If I could show you how a word can grow
 * into a thorn that finds its home within
 * the softest places of the hardest men,
 * you wouldn't be so quick to let one go.
 * In silences, defenseless and alone,
 * security and self-esteem descend;
 * ambitions cease and aspirations bend
 * as product of a fatal verbal blow.


 * If I could show you how a word can rise -
 * bring laughter, bring excitement, bring rapport,
 * bring nations out of poverty and war -
 * perhaps your speech would seek a different guise.
 * What problems of this world could be deterred
 * if we revered the value of a word?