my words come out like my feet step,
ungracefully
tripping and stumbling and stuttering through an
eternal crowd of people asking me to
speak up or repeat myself
my mind moves too fast and
the rest of me has to fight to catch up
my hands can’t possibly write all the words caught in my throat
nor can my mouth say them fast enough
jumbled and tongue-tied,
slurring thoughts, mumbling phrases, lisping sentences
in a frustratingly incomprehensible heap
of constant typos in the form of human speech
“think before you speak” never really
did me any good
all those carefully planned words
gone
the instant i open my mouth
twisted and mangled beyond repair,
beyond comprehension
but
i write like my heart beats
continuously,
to remind myself
i am alive
ungracefully
tripping and stumbling and stuttering through an
eternal crowd of people asking me to
speak up or repeat myself
my mind moves too fast and
the rest of me has to fight to catch up
my hands can’t possibly write all the words caught in my throat
nor can my mouth say them fast enough
jumbled and tongue-tied,
slurring thoughts, mumbling phrases, lisping sentences
in a frustratingly incomprehensible heap
of constant typos in the form of human speech
“think before you speak” never really
did me any good
all those carefully planned words
gone
the instant i open my mouth
twisted and mangled beyond repair,
beyond comprehension
but
i write like my heart beats
continuously,
to remind myself
i am alive