Incommunicable Forvever

The Phrase Unspoken

 

Could have sparked an idea

Could have given advice

Could have broken a vow

Could have delighted a child

 

Could have earned a man’s trust

Could have held a horrid lie

Could have spoken clear truth

Could have saved a life

 

Could have shattered a heart

Could have promised things to come

Could have opposed beliefs

Could have left a person numb

 

Could have made a friend

Could have lost one too

Could have been a phrase

That made your day not so blue

 

Could have begun a conservation

Could have led to many things

And that simplistic phrase

Could have been a gift to human beings

 

Could have released tears of despair

Could have birthed a hint of a smile

Could have caused desolation and for some,

That phrase could have gone a mile

 

But that phrase, that phrase

The one never uttered

Stayed on the strained lips of the speaker who couldn’t

And it stayed there, soon to become a lost thought

Trying to dive off that tongue

Trying to feel the air

Trying to be heard and remembered

Trying, trying, trying, but in vain

For the speaker stopped, and let the darkness descend

And the phrase was slowly engulfed

Never to be heard, never to be known again

Slowly slunk back, back, and back

And it stayed there, waiting for the second chance that would never come and never did

Incommunicable forever