…when I speak with such great authority
when I speak my thoughts already three
sentences ahead
when I speak mimicking the creator
when I speak the anxious babbler
when I speak tongue tied and twisted
when I speak blessing and curses
when I speak, the teacher, the nurturer
when I speak amalgamated sources
when I speak the child, the elder
when I speak mumbles and laughter
when I speak, the silence, the holder
when I speak vocal fry and valley girl
when I speak calmly and half smiled-soothing
when I speak validation or judgment
when I speak the sound of my Mother
when I speak the gifts, of loved ones
when I speak a slip of the accent, a foreign lingua
when I speak a muse come through me
when I speak, a plea and a prayer.
* the title is a song lyric from Jeremy Enigk from "Shade and the Black Hat" - "can they hear me (?) when I speak, my knees bowed." He also says the line "can they hear me, when I speak my tongue's tied." Which is why I darkened that line.
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