The raw, uncensored, empathic, sincere communication of adolescence with so few barriers and so much invention reminds me to respect all phases of life.
By Susan Creamer Joy - Saturday 01 Oct 2011
We were so vocal then
Bold and Fly-highing
Marking with world with language
We invented
Fast and incisive
Taking corners on two syllables
Carving our initials with loud vowels
Or invectives
Deep into the commitment
of unspoken trust
Each one of us
Rounding out words
In those spaces
Between thoughts
Fresh verbs that carried to resonance
Codified lingo we lived by
Or folded into memory
Our sentences
Fully varnished
In the common care
Of friendship.
Bold and Fly-highing
Marking with world with language
We invented
Fast and incisive
Taking corners on two syllables
Carving our initials with loud vowels
Or invectives
Deep into the commitment
of unspoken trust
Each one of us
Rounding out words
In those spaces
Between thoughts
Fresh verbs that carried to resonance
Codified lingo we lived by
Or folded into memory
Our sentences
Fully varnished
In the common care
Of friendship.