Something to Chew On

   If the phrase "a raisin in the sun" sounds familiar, you may have already pondered what happens to dreams deferred, but what about voices unheard?

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You've got the words to change a nation

But you're biting your tongue

You've spent a life time stuck in silence

Afraid you'll say something wrong

If no one ever hears it how we gonna learn your song?

So come, on come on

Come on, come on

You've got a heart as loud as lions

So why let your voice be tamed?

Baby we're a little different

There's no need to be ashamed

You've got the light to fight the shadows

So stop hiding it away

Come on, Come on 

I wanna sing, I wanna shout 

I wanna scream till the words dry out

--Emeli Sande, "Read All About It (Part III)"

   Beauty, enjoyment, travel, audience--I write for a lot of reasons, but one is so that I, who stammer for an answer in face-to-face conversation and think of good comebacks twenty minutes too late, may be eloquent. I write to free my voice that sometimes gets buried under layers of insecurity--to let it be heard.

How do you make your voice heard?