Everybody Has a Story
'10 Tahoe
An observation, an opinion, an idea,
a story—everybody has one.
. . . But not every voice is heard.
Not every voice can
b -r -e- a- k—–
through the drone of drilling words—
to cut the wake, the constant flow.
Not every voice can
p e r s i st andresist
to ring through
when talked over, walked over, socked in the heart over
and over again.
Self-centered . . . no, well,
maybe.
But certainly self-absorbed.
Is your story better than my story?
Is mine better than that –>other,
that other passing silent, unheard, misunderstood
because of the steady surge of my lexicon, your hex upon
an other’s unsurpassable worth?
Not every voice can
s w e L L L
in a surge of soul
to cut the wake, the constant word wash,
when mauled over, scrawled over, quenched in the spirit over
and over again.
Everybody has a story, but
not every voice is heard.
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…………………………..[Is your story being heard?]
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