Thought Left Unsaid
and unheard
I thought I might have something
that I wanted to say to you.
So, I shut my mouth.
*
Those words,
I thought those words might help you.
Those words you need to hear.
So, I bit my tongue.
*
I choked back the words I wanted to say,
because you know I’ve said them,
and you know you've heard them
more times than I {we both} can say.
Over and over.
A lifetime of over and overs.
A thousand million times, in one form or another
I’ve spit out those words.
I yelled/I cried/I pleaded/I've screamed into the wind.
I even tried singing a lullaby.
Didn’t like the tune.
And the baby didn’t hush.
So, this time, this time
I clenched my jaw and sewed my lips sealed.
*
Those words, those words I wanted to say;
those words, those words, they stayed.
Locked in my mind,
For once, this time.
For once again, again I knew,
that I could never get through.
For how much I share,
you will never hear.
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You will never care
-
And this I know for sure to be true,
for I was once the mind of you,
and you are still and shall always be,
the very heart and soul of me.
And maybe, just maybe, someday we
Can put ourself(ves) back together.
If only You {I}
Would.
Listen.
About the Creator
Cathy holmes
Canadian family girl with a recently discovered love for writing. Other loves include animals and sports.
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Comments (16)
This was incredibly relatable! Very well done, Cathy!
Wow this was brilliant. Completely felt this. Great work.
Filled with so many feelings, it's a great poem.
I love this but also hate how relatable it is... feeling the sting of this one a little! Great work Cathy!!
This is brilliant and sharp as a tack, my friend! Well done, well done, well done!
Oh, this is so, so powerfully executed, my friend. So many compelling elements here - the act of staying quiet to say something, and that of having been on the other side. Marvelous :)
Yikes, throwback to an ex of mine... I felt this deeply.
Listening is important, fears exist on both sides of a story, if each side listen deeply, maybe, just maybe each will understand the other. Some are incapable, alas.
It's soooo difficult trying to get through to people like this. It's just so freaking exhausting! Loved your poem!
If only, eh? It's hard to feel like you don't have a voice, or rather, you have a voice but you can't use it because what use is it if it can't be heard? I really felt this, Cathy.
The flow of this is so natural and yet intense - rich with emotion and so, so clever!
'If only.' When those two words are adjacent they evoke more pain than all the words in the dictionary put together. But adding 'you would listen' multiplies the resultant emotion a thousandfold. This poem aches with feeling and despair, Cathy. Simply amazing!
Powerful emotion.
I have begun to learn that listening is often more needed than offering solutions to a problem. Great progression of text-
Wow!!! I agree with Babs! 😊💕💗
Wow!!! Powerful penned!!! Loved it, my friend!!!❤️❤️💕