Page 15 - Giv'er Miramichi Magazine - Summer Giver 2024

Ode to The Words That be Told

by Toby Waye

The words that be told,
May be told in any way.
You are told with emotions,
That controls the way.

You can be enjoyable,
Beautiful, but also believable.
You may be something one may need to hear,
Something one will remember and love to hear.

You can be hurtful,
Bleak, but also brutal.
You may have the power to stop life,
you're something one may fear to act or to hear.

Hey, word that be told,
You need to watch how you're told.
You sometimes need to be said,
Sometimes needed to be dead.

You are heard from day to day,
Here to stay and not to fade.
You are always said, not always from the brain,
But also from the pain that we withstand.

That’s why I like you, the words that be told,
You are the law’s mystery.
You are told without recognition of the words that may flow from one’s mouth,
Like our ancestors that said the mystery that will bleed with recognition going down in history.