Voices

Let it be as it will be

Let it come as it will come

I'm not prepared; but that's on me

My silence shouldn't strike you dumb.

If I don't know how I should speak

But you are ready to declare

I will hear your voiced critique

And save my own as I prepare.

I will listen, truly hear,

Not waiting just to have my say;

I hold your conversation dear

And would not wish your words away.

Let us each speak truth to power

In our own peculiar hour.