FRIEND OR FOE TeAnne © Jan 22.1998

With lyric and rhyme

I spend hours in time

trying to pit

my elusive wit

against the best

if only to jest

My strokes can cut like a sword

on this you have my word

Lovers’ have used me to embed their seeds

while others with a stroke show their greed

I have been known to change a law

even create a bloody war

I'm cold and strong

straight and long

and made from plastic

ain’t technology just fantastic

even though I'm sleek and slender

to this world I have no gender

always replaced by a rival

I have a zero rate of survival

ships I could sink

with my body of ink

But what do I know

I see her hopes they grow

to write a poem that's great

before her life its late

she has this great yen

Me I'm only her pen.

(This poem reworked from a 1993 idea) © TeAnne 1998

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