Cruising the Stratosphere

...are those funny things that are the writer's paint brush.
  ...are unique in that unlike a paintbrush, they can be used wrongly.
  ...are subject to other people's judgments.
  ...have started wars and have brought peace to chaos.
  ...are the pen's swordstrokes.
  ...unlike a paintbrush can be misunderstood.
  ...take an untold amount of abuse from their audience.
  ...have the power to soothe and console.
  ...have the power to raise ire.
  ...long to be free of logical consternation like the paintbrush.
  ...are the commonly misunderstood parishners of authors.
  ...are multicolored and textured tools disguising themselves as black. They are Brilliant in their Blackness!
  ...aaahH words. What tools of blessing you are.

  
S.T.C.