A Riddle for Writers

This riddle has one general answer and ten specific answers.

RIDDLE – WHO ARE WE?

By Rick Borger

We’ll change the meanings of things you say.
Parts of your words we’ll cut away.
We might close in on your words at times
(As if some things you said were crimes).
We’ll stop you after every thought.
It may seem cruel, but it is not.
We’ll slow you down, or we’ll raise your tone!
Your words “won’t seem to be your own.”
We’ll strike three times when you grow silent...
Could we really be so violent,
Cutting you off with a single stroke—
Making you pause with a twist and a poke;
Turning your statements into riddles?
That’s how each of us fools and fiddles
With stories and essays and poems you write.
We’re only helping you get them right.

Rick Borger is a long time AWCS member and volunteer.