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Lee Gelis - If I Had a Voice

2014-10-29 51 Dailymotion

If I had a voice then I would tell you, <br />Tell you that I loved you, that I cared, <br />That even I, the most silent of faces, <br />Knew of your deepest perils and dooms. <br />I would tell you about my adventures, <br />About my poetry and nightlife, about <br />The many evils that face me in daylight, <br />About morse code and Mencken, <br />The differences between a hatchet, <br />An axe, and a halberd, about the way <br />The birds fly when I walk near, and how <br />They do so when you've been sitting <br />For a very long time, I'd tell you about <br />What it's like getting older and watching <br />Others do the same thing around you, <br />Hiding their own skeletons and thinking <br />They were the first to do so, and least of all, <br />I would tell you about myself. For what a <br />Horrible thing it is for others to know of me. <br />No, it cannot be. I am not human, Not alike. <br />There is no character here for you. Go on, <br />move along, there's no one here anymore. <br />Just a being, without a voice, stuck thinking <br />of the metanarrative, unable to participate <br />in life's games for fear of gaining color.<br /><br />Lee Gelis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-i-had-a-voice-2/

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