Silver tongue
Golden tongue
Black tongue
Green tongue
Sick tongue
Slipped tongue
Well tongue
Held tongue
My words are all finished
My words have just begun
My lies all are done with
Yet still I have my tongue
~ Penelope Valentine Gale
This spell was originally meant to be part of a ritual for grieving my old voice, as I worked on bringing out a new voice. The notebook that I wrote it in went into hiding, however, and I said something else during the ritual. I’m posting it here, because I found the notebook, and found the spell. I like its structure, as a poem. And I like saying “tongue” a whole lot. 🙂
Perhaps it will be useful to someone else going through a transition, gender or otherwise, voiced or no.