"If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue…"
(Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936)

A Message to Bloggers

The writer in me presses hard
To publish what I think
I've blogged a bit to try it out
And swallowed long this drink
To know intoxication's clout
Can bring folly to the brink

Our audience is faceless
It may read but never speak
But what about the one inside
Yourself whose life you leak
And taking honour for a ride
Destroy all integrity you seek?

The wise will keep their counsel
When actions testify to guilt
And not be blogging to the world
Of their sins and shames thus spilt
For boomeranging knives self-hurled
Backstab oneself right to the hilt

The poet in me writes this verse
To pause for thought and care
That what you blog is testament
Quite worthy of defence and fair
Account or suited sentiment
Of self well-clothed while rendered bare

© Judah (2005)