The Urban Unspoken
"Things You Can't Say Out Loud"
Words unspoken have presence,
The weight of unspent potential.
Brick by brick they build
Developing whole worlds
Soliloquies forming the scaffolding
To skyscrapers of secrets
That throws silhouettes on the silence.
The other half of half-truths cut pathways
Through gardens of omission
Decorated with sculptures carved from
White lies and tight-lipped smiles
That beg to say more.
We live between these worlds
An overlay of the unsaid
In contrast with the rest
Until they bleed together
And then they trip us up.
I love you, I hate you, I wish…
Oh shit did I say that out loud?
Cracks in the foundation
We forget the line between
We choke on the mortar of memories
Until we are unsure what whispers we kept
And what ones escaped without notice.
Things screamed inside minds
Until a sort of certainly settles
That surely they heard it all anyway?
About the Creator
Obsidian Words
Fathomless is the mind full of stories.
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