Friday, March 12, 2010

Silence Heard

What if we heard...

What is hidden inside reinforced walls
The lingering potential that silently calls
What if we heard the words that allow us to fall?

The words that desperately need and unabashedly desire
The words that fear the flames of our own fires

What if we heard the I love you's that shiver behind hello
And the I miss you's that cry from beneath the pillow
What if we heard the sounds that explain the unknown
What if we heard the words that tell us not to go?

The words that exist clearly in peaceful dreams
But never come out quite as loud or as clean

What if we heard the mumbles of a broken heart
Or the muffled sentences of a new start
The words that are whispered below fearful breaths
What if we heard the words that die muted deaths?
What if those words rested on our lips and not in our heads?