Speak Up

Speak up

She can't hear you

Over the chatter between longtime

Girlfriends celebrating over drinks.

Teetering on the circle's margin

Is you, an apprehensive man

Wanting to be heard, to be understood

Yet you do not move as if this position

Is your destiny.

Speak up, man!

Stop mumbling, fumbling

Within your insecurity.

Girls just want to have fun,

So pick up a glass,

Smile and give a toast

To friendship

Because if that is all you got

You are at least not alone

And who knows

Appreciation may change your position.

She may see more, offer a hand

Bringing you into the place

You have patiently and consistently awaited

So speak up--not just

with voice but with action

Or she will forget your face

Ignore your embrace

And any chance will be erased.