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Your Voice on the Page
A Poem
When I can hear your voice
on the page,
your stops and starts,
your pauses, intention, and inflection -
insecurities, weaknesses,
triumphs and victories —
when I can feel in your confidence, the secret one, the first,
to know your joys, your fears, your stories,
when I can hear your voice coming from my mind,
in its tone in its measure,
when I can read one word and know it is you —
know how you are feeling and feel it with you —
wanting to reach through the page every stanza and line,
to shake hands with, hug, punch, push, comfort, hold
the words, these words, your words, your you,
this is how I know, how we know, -
it is poetry.
Jenny Justice is a mom, Sociology instructor, and writer. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer. She has been recognized as a Top Writer on Medium in Poetry, Parenting, Reading, Education, Books, Racism, Feminism and Climate Change, so far. You can follow her poetry at Justice Poetic.
