The Riddle

I would give you
a Riddle today.
Words,
singular and alone have
no great meaning, yet
when meaningless scrawls
are combined with more
meaningless scrawls
they become sentences
filled with passion enough
to bring men to their knees
and kingdoms to dust.

The Riddle?
I give it thus because
the words terrify one
such as I who has lived
by words while running
from his dreams.

The first - singular
and alone, stands
ninth in the line serving
as noun and pronoun,
with over eighty entries
in the dictionary.

Second - old as humanity,
acting as noun and verb,
four letters long, I
have been the source of more
destruction - beauty -
through all history than any
other word.

The third - constructed of three
vowels I come by way
of Middle English
from the Old; used as a pronoun
both singular or plural in any
grammatical relation
except that of the possessive.

Together we three, can you see
what we say when scrawled
in conjunction with each?

_{(For a dream :: 09-10-2009)}