I Speak To All Poem by Oscar Benjamin

I speak to all
I speak to myself
I speak with myself
I speak to you
I speak with you
I speak with all
I speak to all
Even the stones in their lunacy of silence
The trees and the swish-swash of their green leaves
The skittering wilting grass of the earth her carpet
The ever staring blue sky and the glorious rain drops
The thundering thunderstorm
I speak to the juniors of nature the seniors tomorrow
The lecturers of nature those that nurture of nature
The barbaric rhythm of the political siren
That silences the hovering masses
I speak to all
I speak to the water that supports life
The seasonal calmness of the waters of the seas
And the blowing wind
The incessant shrill or chirp of the wild bird-
The dove
The nocturnal bat
The crisscrossing swallows
Of the jungle near the source of water
I speak to all that speak
The voracious acts of the silent brother
The nightmares of a dreamer
And the dreams of the dreamer
The hunger laden poverty stricken slum dweller
The hopeless orphans unschooled
The hapless harp player
I speak to your speech
I speak to your silence
I speak to all that has no voice
The voiceless the absent
Yet the strikingly present silence
The cheetah of the wild bush
And the cheaters of the urban jungle
The stained unrepentant president of the resident
Who politicize and sexercise the innocent
The ration in the farm compound
The exorcised inhabitant in the town slum
The caged irregular immigrant in search for human salvation
I speak and I speak to you
I would like to speak and speak with you dear listener
Stone,
Sand,
Men,
Water,
Love,
Hate,
Guilty,
Jealous,
Innocent,
Song,
House,
Food,
Liquor;
I speak to you
I speak and will continue to speak
Even after you all fail or stop to listen
I will speak of the story of men
I will speak of the story of many who are here
The story of the glory of men
The many horrors of the story of men
Souls that have passed flesh
The ancestors,
The gladiator,
Grandpa,
Grandma,
Father,
Mother,
Daughter,
Son;
The snake
Kudu
And the giraffe
And the sun that shines to all
The moon and the stars
The rain and the wind
The space and the planet
The million objects yet discovered
And the unknown
I will speak to myself
Even when I fail to speak to men
I will continue to speak in my dreams
Dreams with a vision of a brilliant tomorrow
Dreams of a weaver that manufacture stories
Dreams of my story workshop
With many who attentively listen
With the intention to get all that I mention
I will speak to the dreams
I will speak about the dreams
I will speak for the dreams my dreams
Your dreams- our dreams
Then my dream speech
I will continue to speak it to existence
The resistance against autocratic governance
The forced migration
Of men and thought
I will speak to the flowers for generations to come
And yet to go
I will go ahead to speak to all that exist
And that which seem not to exist at all
03/10/2010
Oscar Benjamin