Raise your voices, please
Please raise your voices
If you would only
Would only Speak Louder
LOUDER!
Be heard Be heard Be heard Be heard
I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared I’m scared
You say you’re scared
I’m scared
So you whisper
You whisper whispered voices whispered
Your words always whispered so soft…
Someone might hear you
Someone might hear your whispers
And listen to your words and that someone
Might smile at your words
Might read those words those Lakota words
Those proud native words
Grass words and sky words
Animal words and ancestor words
Someone might read those words
And smile to know those words are still breathing
Those words are still living
You are still living.
You could make them smile.
Someone else
Someone else
Might hear your whispers
Whispers whispered voices
and be sad for you
They might cry for you
They might see in your words those gravestones you carry
Those graven images on your binder
On your t-shirts
Those gravestones that you carry
Covered in crosses and rhinestones
Those gravestones dragging, pulling, holding
Your hurt could drown hearts made of granite
You could make them cry with your words.
Someone else
Someone else might hear your whispered words
and get mad
Might hear your oppressed words
Inarticulate words without opportunities
Words that want more but don’t know how
Don’t know how because no one taught them how
And someone might read those wanting words
And it might make them want something more
For you
It might make them mad
It might make them want something more
To do something more
For you
To articulate your words
To give them opportunities
To teach you those words.
They will want to reach you
They will want to teach you those words
They might hear your whispers and get mad
Raise your voices, please
Please raise your voices
If you would only
Would only Speak Louder
LOUDER!
Be heard Be heard Be heard Be heard
Make them smile
Make them hope
Make them cry
Make them mad
Make them want
Teach them
Reach them
With your loud voices Loud voices
Spoken Words
Spoken Loudly
Because it’s hard to hear whispers
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