The Reader's Voice

That what is written is what is read.

Yet, I have also come to know

That such a thing is just not so.

For when one reads one must exhume

The tone, the cadence, and the tune

Of how the writer felt that day

About what the writer had to say.

It gets more tangled when the reader believes

The writer's mind is one they can perceive.

Through relationships whether near or far

Writer and reader must cross a bar.

The writer tries to make it understood

The writing is mostly meant for good.

While the reader can only fantasize

What was seen through the writer's eyes.

A writer may at times, of course, discourse

In negative vein over some strange force.

Then the reader must often decide

If this is real or just a diatribe.

No matter what the writer writes.

Good or bad can see no light.

For the words' power have just one choice

The meaning given by the Reader's Voice.