I Never Said
Poetry on the Consequences of Suppressed Feelings
This is for Vocal's I Never Said It Out Loud Challenge.
Silence doesn't mean absence.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)(⁎˃ᆺ˂)
I never said
As I watched you with my heart
More than my eyes.
You thought it was the trees,
But it was the way you moved
As you were thinking.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂)
I never said
But I recall each step that you took
More clearly than my name.
I learned the rhythm of your breaths
In the rooms where you thought
I didn't hear.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (
I never said
My silence was my shelter
And I kept my feelings in a locked closet
Because you never asked about them.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂)
I never said
How quietness can seem like consent
And made it easy for you to
Dismiss.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂)
I never said
How I see myself
Stand before you
Remembered.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂)
I never said
That I am not fine
With being remembered
As easy to love
As I never said.
(⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂) (⁎˃ᆺ˂
Original poem by Michelle Liew. AI tags are coincidental.
About the Creator
Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
Keep reading
More stories from Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin and writers in Poets and other communities.
Comments (7)
🦋
Wow, powerful.
The things we don't say can feel exactly this heavy
Well-wrought! Sometimes silence is golden, and sometimes just empty.
That was beautiful, Michelle. Well done.
Dang!! You never said... but somehow, we heard it all. I felt the hush in my bones.✨
The emotion here is so quietly powerful.