If I Gave You A Voice?

If I gave you a scratch pad and a broken pencil

Would you write?

Scrape something out

If I gave you a notepad and a pen

Would you give me a serious thought?

Gift all of us something deliberate

If I gave you a phone with a note file to be filled

Would you spend some time typing it in?

A burst of insight we could all use

If I gave you a computer with personal software

Would you devote some time to express yourself?

Weave your learned insight into words of importance

If I gave you a private laptop

Because the computer was too public

Would you spend some time behind the scenes with yourself?

Dig deeper into your experience and express your thoughts

If I gave you a voice recorder

So, you could just talk to yourself

Share your life experience

Synthetic or just alone and personal

Wherever you were

Whenever you wanted

Did you talk?

Did you take a moment?

And tell us

Your story?

Honest and outspoken?

It’s important!

I said that to you. Multiple times.

And, even though, I’m scared to hear,

Your story

It just might be important.

To hear

Your life.

If I gave you

An avenue

An alley

A dark space

A regression of self

Would you take it?

Or will that

Truth of you

Never be spoken

Recorded

Shared

And learned?

Someone

needs to know.