What Can't Be Said
What Can't Be Unsaid
Unspeakably descriptive
A word held in tight
Indeterminably vague
Its utterance is contradiction
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Used to describe the horrors
The heinous, the despicable, the tragic
It is unmentionable for everyone
Except the intrepid lexicographers
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You can't just go around
Saying what you can't get around
People will run away
For their very lives than say
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The word I can't say
Without contradicting myself
Is more than unspeakable, unmentionable, or covertly un-F'able
It's overtly ineffable.
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Gerard DiLeo
Retired, not tired. In Life Phase II: Living and writing from a decommissioned church in Hull, MA. (Phase I was New Orleans and everything that entails. Hippocampus, behave!
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Hey, you. I thought I’d start this letter by telling you a little about myself, just so you know who you’re dealing with. I’m an emotional dad, father to three amazing kids who we met through the foster care system, and whose presence in our lives has really transformed my sense of responsibility to the communities that surround us. The connections we’ve made with one another, with our extended families, and with the communities where we live and look for belonging have catapulted us into this whirlwind of emotional tumult which, while not easy by any stretch of the measure, has also been remarkably healing. I realize ours is really only a one-sided chosen family, since our kids didn’t get to choose to live here, but I’d like to think that they did choose to let us love them, which allowed them to grow to love us. And I think that’s where I want to go with this letter- to a place where you can find belonging and healing- even if the pathway there may be peppered with some emotional tumult.
By F Cade Swanson4 days ago in Pride
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hello everyone iam a new writer here i wish u all look on my profile and read my stories Congratulations its an amazing story😍🥳🥳
Brilliant word play in this poem! I loved it! Also, congratulations on your Top Story!
Congratulation on TS status. This poem, without a doubt, deserves it. BRAVO!
I had never before thought about the deep relation between the ineffable and the un'F-able, but now all that's changed. I guess words can say too much at times. Congratulations on Top!
Very well done. Congrats on the TS
Great piece. To me personally, we are living in the ineffable world since Feb.24, 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. Israel-Hamas war is making it even more ineffable. Sometimes it feels like we are living in ineffable end times.
Impressive!!! Loving it!!!♥️♥️💕
Nice piece 📝💯♥️👍
Very interesting twist on words. Very well done. Great work.