A Voice I Want to Share

Begun Friday 2-12-2022 and written throughout December 2022 with small edits made Friday 3-3-2023 — Posted Sunday 12-3-2023

				I wanna voice I want to share
				I want a voice I want to share
				I want a voice I wanna share
				no, I wanna voice I wanna share

				Held back by my own ventriloquy,
				O Lord I wanna hear my people roar!
				with the might of the rains of Udu Mmiri,
				but here,
				now,
				it’s more like the sun in harmattan
				I think,
				I wouldn’t know
				I’ve never seen it

				I wanna language that’s mine to share
				I want a language that’s mine to share
				I want a language that will be mine to share
				no, I wanna language that will be mine to share

				I want to walk out of church with the drip of the glorious array 
				of the true heritage of my past
				and true being of my present,
				I want to work through the contradictions in that statement
				and be enraptured by the faith
				of our historical being

				Mine is a language that I want to share
				Mine will be a language that I want to share
				Mine is a language that I wanna share
				Mine will be a language that I wanna share

				I will speak it again & again
				in every infinite way I can figure
				until you hear ME
				I speak it alone at home
				I spoke it with all of you in my dreams
				I scream it now
				until you hear ME

				Mine is a language that’s mine to share
				Mine will be a language that’s mine to share
				Mine is a language that will be mine to share
				Mine will be a language that will be mine to share