you spoke the words
and uttered the silent ones
and it's those gaps
that my eyes tear to fill
for no known reason
and I find it hard to swallow
the degree of your distrust
despite your conscious decision to trust
and we can't all be perfect
but
it's in those silent spaces
that the pressure to change is vocalised
and that's what hurts the most -
to un-free, to withhold, to cut off.
