When you say something
no one understands,
but someone in the room
quietly nods
there I am.
When you think
you’re the first
to feel that way,
and the word already sounds
like it was there before you
there I am.
I am the voice
you did not invent.
You only
borrowed it.
I am the song
that waited for you
before you began to write.
I am
not new.
But already said,
only this time
with your breath.