Poetry Reading: Can we talk, by Sara Pothmann Cullen
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1m 4s
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
Talking endlessly and without reason,
I should have something to say,
something to tell you that would help you on your way,
I pause,
ready to speak,
yet nothing,
not even something little,
not even something great,
just silence,
silence so small,
so cogent,
it cause the earth to shake,
mountains to move,
and eventually,
you move with them.
Words can be powerful,
words can be true,
yet I used silence as a weapon against you.
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