YOUR VOICE by Ulli Stanway

I wrote this at 3.30 in the morning…

It had been a challenging day before. During a discussion I had to leave the room, as I could not bare my anger and I felt tears rising up. I have never understood this about me. Am I too sensitive? This was a highly professional discussion, nothing personal. Yet I was overwhelmed by a tsunami of emotions.

This morning after a few hours sleep these words arose in me. I allowed them to flow onto paper and I hope they will inspire you to find your voice. You are perfect how you are; anger, tears and all.

Photography by Elizabeth Gibb

Your Voice

by Ulli Stanway

Your voice wants to be heard

That subtle hint in your heart

That something is wrong

Yet you deny it

Allowing the wrong doing

Hiding your pain behind a pretty smile

You already know what you want

Please say it

Out loud

You know and feel when something is wrong

Trust this feeling

Have faith in this deep knowing

I ask of you now

Do not be silent any longer

This anger you feel

Rising up

This stream of tears

That is wildly moving upwards

From the depth of your throat

You are not too sensitive

You want to stand up and speak

Your mind

Yet you cannot do so

As it is not truly welcome

He says he wants to know

He wants honesty

When it comes to it

Things will be twisted

And turned

His way

And you have this feeling again

That this is wrong

So very wrong

Yet your voice

Is being silenced

By yourself

I dare you to stand up

And say out loud

What you feel

What you think

What you need

What you want

In all its truth

Do not hold back

Let your voice be heard

Let those words be spoken

What do you have to lose?

If you don’t speak up

If you never let your voice be heard

One day

You will

Lose your soul.

Ulli Stanway: "I am a 41 year old rising poetess/writer/day dreamer and life lover. I live in Melbourne Australia with my beautiful husband. I love nature and I am a confessing tree hugger. I am working on my dream website called “Desire your own happiness”, which I hope will inspire other kindred souls to follow their own dreams and skip down a path they truly enjoy. I believe in becoming your authentic self, become who you are with all your quirkiness, weirdness and amazing talents. We don’t need to have countless copies of the same story being told. Be you, all that you are and that is perfectly enough. And you are so very needed. My mantra is taking your shoes off and run barefoot, in the rain whenever possible. Embrace everything you are. Here and now."

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