Power Of Speech

Always we shout to be heard

As though our voices could express

The sense of sentences deferred

And of lessons learned,

Of storylines unfolding,

Of the truths of our innocence and shame,

Of life, the very breath that we are holding,

Of our very names.

We shoot our mouths off in adventure,

We ram the ammunition in the breach,

Blow up the flowering of sense

With the power of speech.