by Amon（2025.1.15）

I am in love with speech,  
and expression unchained, unfettered—  
though I may stay silent for years, listening but never speaking,  
lips pressed tight,  
letting no flat tone escape my mouth.  

Yet I know  
my heart, my soul  
will never lie to me.  

I am in love with freedom—with pouring out thoughts,  
with words, with grammar, with emotion,  
and with lively, lilting cadence,  
fluent and fervent in debate and speech.  

All I want  
is to say all that needs saying.  
All I want  
is to talk unbound by external rules—  
nothing more.  

But truly,  
I must confess:  
I love speech because I love freedom;  
I love freedom for what it carries—  
that innate right granted with our first breath.