The Unspoken Words of a Fool

"In the Middle of Freedom"  by Isabel Mansfield

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The sharpest sorrows are those which remain locked within our own breasts.
 ~James Lendall Basford

Words do not die

 they wait in silence

as do the unspoken words of a fool

  they survive held captive

 like an abducted child

waiting in bated breath

 for a chance to escape

 yet never losing hope in the years that pass 

there are so many things I wish I had said to you

 I thought I would have the chance

 but time can be a nimble thief

  the chance has long since passed

songs on the radio send thoughts reeling

 like paper cranes in the air

 that will never make it very far

sentiments of hope and love

 lost down darkened halls

 so many feelings wishing

 for a way to be expressed

  perhaps that is why

I became a poet

to give expression

to all my captive thoughts

a million different ways

of saying.... I wish you were still here.

©Carrie Van Horn 2019