Poetry helps you go and see
as someone else instead
like trading someone's eyeballs and putting them in your own head
I could just tell you something, but you might not get it
as a poem, an inserted minds image shifts perspective
ever wonder how Ghengis khan ruled a continent before telecommunications?
with a vast army of illiterate men, conquering all kinds of nations?
through word of mouth, but how could a message be remembered?
and not change from one to another, from August to December?
how could he be in Korea and give orders to Afghanistan?
surely something would get jumbled, passed from man to man
he sent messages through poetry, look it up
because a poem can get in your mind with a hook and tug
it escorts you on a journey and displays ideas the way it planned to
if poetry can conquer almost all of Asia, imagine what else it can do
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