My Invitation

  Here I write, and thereby invite

the thought that this appears

to suggest you should invest

more time to the rhymes you hear. 

As you see, lines one, two, three 

and four support this thesis,

and the notion that such devotion

will benefit the ears it pleases. 

***

Take a deep breath. 

Make a wish for someone. 

Think of a word. 

It could be any word, 

but for the sake of unity, 

let's think the same word. 

Let's think the word man. 

Consider the word man, 

and all that it means. 

Think of a man. 

Say the word 

in your head, 

man. 

Think of the sound 

that the word man

makes in your mind. 

Hear the sound of the word

as you say it out loud, man.

Think of the letter 

in the word 

that makes the sound. 

Think of the sound 

the letter A makes 

in the word man. 

Hear the sound.

Make the sound. 

Keep that sound in mind. 

Think of a woman that you love - 

a mother, a daughter, a sister, a wife. 

Think of your love for her. 

Think of her love for you. 

Be embraced and enveloped by it, 

engulfed and absorbed in it. 

Wonder in it. 

Think of love. 

Think of a woman you love 

hearing the sound of the word man. 

Think of a woman you love 

making the sound of the word man.  

Think of the woman you love 

thinking the sound of the word

that you took a deep breath for.

Think. Love. Sound.

*Breathe*