With your voice

A Poem. — Soul & Sea Poetry Prize

Photo by Pablo Pereyra (2021)

A voice is all I want to be,
All I aim to be,
All I ambition to be.

A voice with a set of ears
attached to that voice
or a listening device
And to learn to be quiet
to listen
to the reflection of the voice
the other voices
accompanying me in this journey
through life.

A voice.
Because who cares about the time,
when all we have is present and present, all we have?

A voice.
Because if you look at time right into its eyes
expanding far, far, far away
into the eons and billions of years and light
how can we make sense of our existence
if we measure it with time?

A voice.
Because even if you think of Shakespeare, and Plato, and Aristoteles
and all those great, great people,
There is nothing. They are nothing
against the immensity of time.