if we all knew what we needed
then we might not feel so bad
when we find we aren't
what we thought we had to offer
and that our words mean little to a few
and not the volumes they were
at the time we wrote them
these things we never
mustered the strength to have spoken
when silence was costly in our eyes
and our ears knew too little of emotion
to convey meaning to the heart
and that in part is why I feel at all
like a failure
when these words don't serve
to label feeling as best they ought
and completely exclude half of my thought
if we could live in the mind
and leave words behind
we'd trully communicate
all of what feeling leaves too late
an impression of in speach
so speak to me as if you really know
what you mean
and I'll make promises
in that language we know
as incomplete

11/06/2001

Posted on 11/06/2001
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