The Power of Words

Oratory makes power

The power of words

An eloquence of speech

Combined with fluency of ideas

Charisma confounds rhetoric

Or expands it

into a force for good or ill

Oratory moves mountains

Moves the masses

There is a power to words

Declamatory speeches

laced with anaphora

Sing to the soul

Words written on the page

Erudite compelling full of truisms

Words of power but which rendition

The eloquence of oration or

the seductiveness of written word?

Which wields the greatest power?

Or is all equal with the power of words?

Samantha Beardon c.