Talk To Me
Speak words that will make me listen
And attend to what you say.
I know you have a message of some import.
I see it behind your eyes,
In the quiver of your lips
It dances on the air like swallows on a wire,
Like the electric taste of lightening
Announcing a summer storm.
This message announces itself in subtler tones.
I need but tune my ear.
Say the words I need to hear,
Speech that comforts
Rhetoric that soars,
Encourage. Discourage,
Praise or distain.
Just talk to me
Please.