May 23, 2018

Reflections

UNSPOKEN CONVERSATIONS -
LETTERS NEVER SENT

There have been too many conversations

I had  with so and so … but they were never

spoken to or at them - only inside my mind.

There have been letters that I wrote but never

sent to them. They were crumbled, ripped up

and tossed into the waste paper basket.

And I was taught - and always thought - unspoken words, crumbled, or deleted words -never spoken or sent, would ever hurt anyone.

Little did I know, wastepaper words, unspoken

feelings can’t remain silent. They become my

face – my scowl - my  itch – my twitch.

They become a virus in my random access memory.

Does unconscious speak to unconscious – and the

other knows – without knowing - the unspoken, the unsaid?

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2018