Please Speak Up

"Please Speak Up"
by Sybil Bayles,
University Friends Meeting (Seattle, WA), 1994

O Friend who mumblest when thee speaks
We urge, we beg, entreat you
Shriek
Rather than have one precious word be lost
Be sure, when thou art moved to speak
Thou wilt be held
In light
Endearing
By those of us with
Impaired hearing