Speak

By Sandy Rochelle

Every once in a while you open your mouth as if to speak.
To abandon the silence that has been your companion.
Your unspoken words are wrapped in gold.
Your conjured verbs bathed in silk.
Speak and abandon your silence to an Egyptian tomb.
Hieroglyphics to be deciphered by some future species of
Unknown origin.

Sandy Rochelle is an award winning poet- actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the President’s Award for Literature. She narrated and produced the documentary film, Art Watch, about renowned art historian, James Beck and appeared on Broadway with The Acting Company of Lincoln Center.
Sandy is a Voting Member of The Recording Academy, in the Spoken Word Category. Publications include: Verse Virtual, Dissident Voice, Wild Word, Poetic Sun, Trouvaille Review, Every Day Writer,
Impspired, Indelible, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Spillwords Press, Amethyst Review, Moon Shadow Sanctuary Press, and others.