how we come to speak

"how we come to speak"- devorah major the 1st word was incomplete the next though clearer lacked balance and was followed by the 3rd who gave rise to us born of clay water fiber drum but before a generation passed we children of the 3rd word knew how to take this gift called language contort it crimson and sew it to our teeth how me mangle this tongue that needs constant translation ongoing comprehension reiteration clarification purification elaboration release we require it to be a constantly changing chameleon a hypnotist, a con man, a cheat, a liar with words we manufacture demons who devour souls and erase fond memories look at how we honor speech that can make us hate that can cause us to deny our mothers our fathers our love ones ourselves we have articulated a deadly weapon that subvert knowledge and betrays faith and how now do we scrape the slime from between our teeth and rinse out the sourness of decay how now do we put our tongues back in our mouths again learn to listen with more than just our ears at once try to speak with more than our toungues