Words – Spoken & Unspoken

Our words have
so much power.

They can break
just as much
as they can
bind. Our words
can be weapons
that tear us
at the seams;
they can create
wounds that never
truly heal and
scars that never
disappear… But they
can also be
the stitches that
close the gaps
and the plaster
that stops the
bleeding and lets
us start healing.

Our words can
create and destroy,
and I have
learnt that our
silences do too.

They are the
words left unspoken,
building a wall
between the two
of us. Brick
by fucking brick,
the things we
should have said
we didn’t. And
all the things
we did say,
meant absolutely nothing
because we never
could say what
we needed to.

By the time
we had found
our voices again,
we could no
longer see past
the wall we
had built together.
This wall we
built with the
things we couldn’t
say, cemented together
by the things
we should’ve said
to each other…

Even if I
screamed what I
needed you to
know, you wouldn’t
have heard as
the words would
simply bounce back,
echoing around me.

“I’m sorry.” and
“I love you.”
All I can
hear is my
soft voice, amplified
by this silence.

“Between what is said and not meant,
and what is meant but not said,
we begin to lose each other in the silence we had created.”