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Copyright Graeme Murphy 2000-2021

Until you speak with your own voice only

 

Until you speak with your own voice only

she will not go with you

She will not go into the woods to name the trees

Will not be with you to shake their branches

Not with you to catch their letters as they fall

Lonely without speech and uninformed

Never to sing every song that ever was sung

 

you may seek adventure to forget her

you may follow another to defy her

you may join in each dance to ignore her

Without her you say you are living

Without her you know you are not

 

When you speak with your own voice only

She will come with you in this little harsh world

Hastings 2018