PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

its not always in the way you say

something

as it is

how the words spoken

are actually taken

each individual hears different

versions of the truth

for the mind confuses memories

of each with ones of its own making

we are all after all built from

the foundation of our imperfect pasts

like sand castle sky scrapers

under clouds worried by their

occasionally ominous over casts

I speak my widened mind

filled with perpetual taunt

by virtue of at least one

'Sure Fire Maybe!'

my choice of words is the beloved child

of my alto voice

spoken simply so to say

watch not what you say so much as

how you choose to say it

tone is everything!

for certain you want your point to somehow

get across

without it being taken as a direct war like

hit

which so often ends in some very form of

battle or conflict

and we wouldn't want that now would we?

at least not in the heated, passionate

waters of love

or the muddy fields of those not yet free.........

(Dec. 17, 1993 pm)