Vowels and Consonants
Women are vowels—clear, complete,
their voices sound, their tones replete.
A, E, I, O, U—the song,
that lingers sweet and carries strong.
Men are the consonants, sharp, defined,
shaped by the vowels that give them mind.
Alone they halt, they choke, they fade,
but joined to vowels, their words are made.
Some men are semivowels, half-heard,
a breath of sound, an echoed word.
They linger soft, imperfect, near,
yet still require a vowel’s ear.
And some are mutes, who cannot stand
without a vowel’s guiding hand.
They stop the breath, they close the song,
yet with a vowel, they belong.
For speech is union, flesh and bone,
no sound is perfect made alone.
But consonant and vowel aligned
create the voice of humankind.
WoPoLi 
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