If I ask, will you listen?
Do the words I say change the tune
of the song?
If I ask, will you hear?
And when I find for my asking your reply is
as if you weren’t listening at all,
will you explain?
If I ask, will you listen?
Will you teach me
the letters and sounds that make up
what it is I have longed for?
I can’t ask. Not this time.
I can only hope that when it is done
it will be seen that you knew my desire
better than I knew how to ask it.
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