Gender Issue
- There are languages without words
- living inside each of us;
- They have some names
- like hope, dream, wish, desire;
- Though if the words were born one day
- we would not recognize them
- because words we do not speak
- are languages we do not know;
- If we hear them, we fear them
- and we are likely to take up arms against them
- burning the prophets who sound so strange
- hacking down those others we call savages or Barbarians;
- Still, funny that for all our efforts against
- the voices we hear but do not understand
- languages we have never known come into this world
- growing up among us like children
- who surprise us with the simple
things they say.
January 1997
jp melville
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