i have one chance to do it rightto say what i have to sayto connect in the way i want to connectbe rememberedand live on vicariously through my words
because my image fades in time but
what i say today
now
can create a desire for change
i can only hope for it to be positive
but i cannot think for you
i cannot tell you how to interpret my words
but i can learn to speak
so that my words are universal
because before i learn to speak to you
i must learn to understand you
and not just you but us
what connects us
and i will remember that when i speak to you
i do not have time to revise
i will not write what i speak
because when i speak to you
it will be the first time
the only time to say this
in order to invoke emotion
create a connection
the feelings i connect with the words that i speak
must be new to me
and when i share this new feeling
these new words
i speak
i feel
connect me to you
through our human experience together
today
at this moment
i cannot take it back
i cannot erase it
it will be nothing i have said
or nothing i have felt before
but i will speak to you as a person
like me
who feels like me
i hope my words stand out in this world of word pollution
and i hope mine linger in the lives of many
knowing the secret is to embrace the idea
that i only have one chance to be remembered.
