Speak!

Who am I to deny your words

Or turn away from flags unfurled

While people run in circular herds

And duck at each idea hurled

Every one of us has a voice

Unique and separate from the crowd

Each of us must make the choice

To hold their tongue or speak out loud

So speak your mind and I’ll speak mine

Then listen, just as I listened to you

Maybe we’ll see some kind of sign

Perhaps there’ll be a sort of clue

We all may be much more the same

And more akin than we’d thought

No matter where or whence we came

Or whatever lies we’d been taught