an unrehearsed universe

Justified

Were just
excised from the English language
then I
would be rendered
mute.  Having no shorthand
qualifier, how could
“I”
portray the smallness
of being
a “just”? 

Fake it ‘till
you make it, yes, but
will self-esteem
spontaneously
manifest
if my "I"
speaks in declarations
demands
instead of questions? 

I
just
cannot believe the
rhetoric of those
who
would never notice the
absence
of such a word
or the “I”
defined by it.