The dream of a common language. By Adrienne Rich

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The dream of a common language.

[00:00:04]We spoke in fragments lost between the words we said and what will they mean.

[00:00:10]Across the silence wide and deep, we built our truths we could not keep.

[00:00:16]Your voice was fire, mine was air. We reached but found no language there.

[00:00:22]Yet something moved beyond the sound. A fragile bridge we almost found.

[00:00:29]Not every truth requires a name.

[00:00:32]Not every heart can speak the same.

[00:00:35]But still we try through time and space to meet each other face to face.

[00:00:41]And maybe language isn't said.

[00:00:44]But felt in all we leave unsaid.