How do you Speak?

     I have been thinking about the different ways in which we speak and express ourselves. I don't always think of speaking in the traditional sense in that I feel that we all speak in our own way, that's why we are givin different gifts and talents. Mathematicians speak with numbers, some speak through instruments, some speak through movement, and the ways to speak go on. I feel that it is important for a person to embrace their way of speaking and this should be encouraged by others. When people find how they speak, they grow, feel freer, and figure out what they have to offer themselves and the world. Sometimes the need to be different is suppressed because it doesn't fit the neat categories that people are sometimes placed in, but when you don't respect someone's gift to me that is like taking away their voice. Last year  I was thinking about this and I wrote the following little poem to express my thoughts:
"If I can't speak Let Me..." (My pen=my mouth)

If I can't speak, let me write.
If  can't speak, let me dance.
If I can't speak, let me walk.
If I can't speak, let me run.
If I can't speak, let me sing.
If I can't speak, let me play.
If I can't speak, let me listen.
If I can't speak, let me in.
If I can't speak, let me see.
If I can't speak just watch me, there is a deeper story within.
 Allow me to be me and my unravelling will begin.
 If you let me speak in my soon enough you will know you see me but don't see me.
I just want to speak in my way so that I can truly let me go...

2.24.2010

I wrote this poem to use my way of speaking to encourage others to explore their way of speaking.