"One day I will find the right words and they will be simple."~Jack Kerouac

My thoughts are twisted
and my tongue tied

but I have things to say

tender and honest things
from deep within

a yearning that hurts

My voice silent for lifetimes

my words lost
but on this day

I have found them
after long painful years

they might not be
the right words

but they are mine
and they are simple

I have always been
a shy thing

in spoken lines
of honest to God truth

uttered in whispers
of broken sentences

But on this day
of finding lost things

I will hold my Southern tongue
in trembling hands

I will untwist my thoughts
and uncap my pen

and write my simple words

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