An Ode to My Voice

Tue, 08/04/2015 - 12:46 -- sm1groh
 An Ode to My Voice:
By Sarah Groh
Softly
Quietly
I speak
 
Loudly
Exuberantly
I speak
 
Playfully
Happily
I speak
 
Sadly
Mournfully
I speak
 
My voice
My voice
It is uniquely mine,
beautifully and wonderfully mine.
 
It cannot be changed or duplicated,
and only I shall speak with it.
Mine.
Beautifully, wonderfully mine.
 
My voice shall only grace the earth in my lifetime,
conveying my ideas and my thoughts and my emotions.
Beautifully, wonderfully mine.
 
I voice my fears and my hopes
My thoughts made public by the intricate mechanics
of coordinating my mouth to form vowles
and consonants,
my vocal cords vibrating,
to communicate,
so that all can understand.
 
My voice that can speak more than one language
My voice that can laugh
and my voice that can cry.
Beautifully, wonderfully, mine.
 
 
This poem is about: 
Me

Comments

sm1groh

9 years ago

This poem is for the "Everything is Awesome" poetry slam. In writing it, it helped me to realize how great and amazing it is that we can speak, and that we can communicate with eachother - not just ideas, but emotions, and stories, and plans, and everything that makes us human. I hope you enjoy.

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