* Posted this on my social Tumblr but I think it belongs here more. Plus I haven’t updated in forever.
If I gave life to my thoughts, would my words be able to breathe? Would anyone read them, listen to them as they speak in strangely composed cadences? Rhythm that is nomadic; will they be born unheard children, though they are not dumb?
As the one who conceived their very being, dictating their mission, I cannot conceive that their values will be so short lived. Perhaps, rather, I wish it not. For how could one stand to see others simply ignore the offspring of her nine months of grueling labor. The day of delivery was a victory. Not because the pain was finally over, but because it marked the renaissance of her whole being, particularly her beliefs.
So when I present my brew of speculations, I intend to do so only in the presence of a mindful audience, fixated on learning the vernacular language my words speak and not the skewed or poorly conjectured rendition of which some silly asinine fool came up with on the spot to impress (though it usually results in the opposite effect). Yet, life is cruel. It does not present my selection of concerns with a fair assembly, no matter how gifted I deem them in my eyes.
This is my dilemma. However, to never give chance to them will make me a deficient god. To wield such a magnificent power, yet to abuse it by letting it die with me because I chose to let them whelm me with an empty pool. It will only make me as low as that of a faulty iron pipe. Rusty. Unreliable because I am so unstable; I destroy the building and everything in near proximity. I have let you judge me to your pleasure, but no more. Now is the time you read me and my collection of letters from the English alphabet. My phrases, my sentences, my paragraphs. My words, my mind. Myself.
If you refuse, I will put my ego aside, as there is no need to beat knowledge into hollows. But if you listen rather than hear, that whisper you thought was so very weak, will intensify—a blade—and strike.
And so then, I let them be born.