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Jessica Harris

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

1 poem·Since December 2017
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True Communication

December 18, 2017

Dear friend,

I write you knowing your true opinion you'll share

Not spatter words down without thought, love or care

So here are my thoughts, they're simple and yet

I think as humans, we've missed this, it's got me quite in a fret

If one were to cross

Into the realm of true communication

I wonder what we would find

More than a simple salutation

A meaningless compliment

Jubilant words

Boiling over with hidden regret

Where what was meant

Is what they said

Is what they thought

Is what you caught

From the conversation

Where the tone

Alone

Whispers a feeling

As if stealing from the soul

And floating across the abyss

That separates us, humans

On soundwaves

Radiowaves

Saving us from the animalistic hunger

Held off by wonder. Imagination. Knowledge. Learning.

Communication turning into action

What do you think?

Tell me

Sincerly, Jessica Harris
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