Limiting Speech

With no words to offer for all my lisping tongue's protest

I come here before you silently surrendered no less

Knowing that within me there is a case being tried

Over the words I have offered words full of lies

With a smile and quick wit I have been prone to say

Any barrage of language meant only to convey

Anything but what is true and just and good

Choice moments for choice words I have misunderstood

I have built a castle made out of silky smooth vernacular

I have lit it up at night all applaud for it is spectacular

Yet in the daylight it lacks the pull of mass appeal

For as of yet none of my words create anything real

Silence me please with a stone gate over my mouth

I look up to the heavens and I want to scream and shout

Put the law of Kindness upon my unruly tongue

I am silent until you are concretely done

For my actions speak more like a megaphone

While my words are like a child at home alone

Loved ones can only hear so much only so much

Love grows cold when there is no beating heart to touch

Take my language all its anguish and its burden

I pray, today, let the Law of Kindness in me help the hurting

Especially that one so close to my deepest heart and soul

Bring healing from my lips making what was apart entire and whole

September 8th, 2012....3:56am DRS