Unspoken Pain

In silence I can feel the pain

Thinking just how vague it is

I hug my trembling knees

As tears fall on my cheeks

I shouldn't have looked at you

Or should have just pretended

Like I blind girl passing by

Not seeing the painful truth

With you I become transparent

Like a fool you bend me

You melt my very soul

Leaving me with a naked heart

By just looking at the sky

I get sad with your smile

Knowing the sad reality

That they're not mine to take

I shouldn't have listened to them say

Such words that stab my heart

In it's fragility it shatters in silence

As those words prick my ears

But I know I'll stay the same

Stand here waiting for you

Hoping for you to realize

That it's me who loves you true

-Kathleen L. Burlas-