SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE.

A poem which describes a lad who is unable to let out his feelings to a lady due to fear ....

Speechless Spoken Word Artiste

SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE.
So if my vocal folds can ’ t collaborate to
produce sounds to communicate loudly to
your beautiful mind that I have an endless
mission of loving you, can ’ t there be any
mere articulation in my vocal tract to do
that? What are my tongue , lips , alveolar
ridge, hard palate and velum doing ? I
never knew that emotions could shut my
speech tract . How I wish my speech tract
could connect to my heart , so that I can
give you a cord of love inserted into my
heart, for you to put it into your ears and
listen to the words my heart says because
I am speechless . I had it in my mind to tell
you that you are beautiful , eloquent , and
charming . When I drew nigh , I decided to
start with the word ‘ lady ’ to show some
decorum. But I realized my lungs
couldn’ t even initiate the airstream for my
glottis to either widen or narrow to cause
my vocal tract to produce the voiceless
and voiced sounds in the two syllable
word, let alone the nine . Should I comply
with those who say action speaks louder
than words , so that I can gesture for you
to get the feelings better ? I thought I was
one who could speak like a parrot, but I
am now sliced before you like carrots . But
what could make a spoken word artiste
speechless apart from the abnormal ? OK !
Let ’ s try establishing causality . The
moment I saw you, you blinked your eyes,
so probably that muted me. So if you
could do that again , it may set me free.
Don’ t wait for me to tell you that you can
cause distraction . Don’ t go near a podium
mounted by a performer , lest , you will
cause distraction . Because that image you
carry isn ’ t what you think. Not even a
mermaid , more than strange. Please set
me free because you are gradually
becoming ‘ head of Medusa ‘ , rays from
your eyes are communicating with mine
and making me motionless like lot ’ s wife
is Sodom and Gomorrah . I came out of
volition but it is now at your discretion to
let me go, so please take off your eyes and
set me free

"My heart knows that you are mine
But you are sending chills down my spine
So my tongue wants to deny
But my whole knows that you are mine
You are mine"

Tension within me had converted into
electrical energy and burnt my speech
tract . So what I am going through is
beyond dumb . From a distance , I was in
haste to meet you, but the moment I set
my eyes on you, as though there were a
speed rump- I started moving like a
tortoise . What broke the camel ’ s back was
when your eyelids became a canon
camera and gave me flash , I became
static . I wonder why I am speechless. I
wonder why I am speechless . Because I
am this man who can stand before a lady
and produce lyrics more than ‘ sarkology ’
album, so I wonder why I am speechless . I
could make a lady swim deeper in the pool
of sweet words , so I wonder why I am
speechless. Movement of my negative lips
could attract positive ladies, so I wonder
why I am speechless. Perhaps we are both
negatives, so we repel. How I wish my
vocal folds will touch along their edges
from my thyroid and open slightly at my
arytenoids to create a creaky sound like
‘ huuh ’ for you at least get the air of love ,
but none is working . I have thin vocal
folds that can produce nice sounds like the
lead guitar , so I wonder why I can ’ t even
stammer . My phonetics is not working , let
alone deploy my syntax for you to use
your morphology in breaking down the
words to achieve semantics . How
unfortunate it is that my speech tract
couldn’ t let out the words my mind has
been saying since the beginning of this
piece.