Awkwardly

Please let us
Keep talking

Awkwardly
If we must

Keep sharing our words

Sharing our worlds

Keep hearing
Each other’s

Uncomfortable
Stories
 
Because it’s the silence
That denies
Existence

And the silence
That is literally
Killing us
 
But it’s our words
However clumsy and
Awkwardly formed

That bring us
The warmth of
Community

And point us
In the direction
Of life