If Only They Could Speak

if only the men, the husbands, the fathers, the brothers could speak. if only they could find the fortitude to force the friendly flow of fierce vocables, the creative current of words, the language they longed for, the ones their loved-ones loathed, the strong strings of meticulously mended phrases, mingling in the minds of those where it strikes home. if only these men, the husbands, the fathers, the brothers could speak. if only they could speak on the trials and tribulations that they try to defend their home from, the heartaches from their hardships that sail on the sea of their soul yet their suffering doesn’t sink them, the wind of their everyday war whipping the walls, the worn down barrier warding off their watery eyes. if only the men, the husbands, the fathers, the brothers could speak. - Chauncey J. Taylor