Say Me Else I Shall Not Be

Say Me Else I Shall Not Be

by

Joy Rnee

Words gone astray

Gone away

Gone

Words gone missing

Stolen away

Gone

Words gone south

Gone out of my mouth

Gone

Gone out of my mind

Wordless I wail,

Words! Oh my words

Where are you?

Words fail?

Me?!

Words be!

Be!

I command thee.

Words now! says me.

Say me

Else I shall not be.

How am I without you?

Who am I without you?

Words! My words! Return unto me!

Words! Be mine again.

Oh my word

Do not deny me

Do not betray me

Must I beg?

I will beg.

Beggar am I

See me? A

Wordless beggar

Wandering circuitous streets

Sightless

For you my light

Refuse to shine.

How shall I find my way without you?

Who will find me without your signal?

Without words there is no significance.

Without significance, I stumble

Down dark alleys of woe

With tattered thoughts aflutter

About my brow.  

A crown of unknowing.

Clothed in a snarl of tangled threads

Shod in flip-flopping moods

I fall and nothing stays me

I reach out and nothing reaches back

For there are no words

Wordless I crawl among the shards

Of the unmaking of my world

Shedding trains of thought that

Scuttle off undefined

Aborted by silence.

Never to be.

Hear my plea.

Soon!

Soon!

You must say me

Else I shall not be.

Rereading this on Sunday, I can see I've still got some punctuation cleanup to do to clarify meaning.  I will be editing this once I get it figured out in the draft.