Sign Language
I've got a poet’s hand but a severed tongue
The best of us have started young
But years come and go like faces in a city
They're never seen again and expression wears off the page
If I can think about it, I can write about it, I can talk about it
But sentences that form in my hands never take shape in my mouth
Quotation becomes strangled strands
Of empty words in barren lands
twenty six letters are friends of mine
they keep my company on the keys
and bring to life my troubled dreams
When conversation is conservative
My words don't fit together
So we can talk in sign language
Until we figure it out
We will figure it out