Connotation

It is easier to say
the difficult things
in a foreign language.

Phrases which, when
uttered in your mother tongue
stick to your palate
scrape against your teeth
hang partly down your throat.

Love, hate, fear
all those life-and-death concepts
flow more smoothly
from lips that are just learning
to mouth the words.

How could that be?
I have found
it is just the same
as playing make-believe.

These strange syllables and sounds
hold no meaning for you.
What do you care
if you have just declared your love
for all the world to hear?

Nothing strikes the speaker
as deeply as words
steeped in connotation.

Without this, you become
an opera singer
learning the words and pulling faces
roughly in time
to the rhythm of the music.

~~~~~~~~AEW~~~~~~~~~

Bangs head against wall...grrrr...

Look out, interior monologue on the loose! Don't just stand there. Skip, you sucker! Fast. <-- More Verse