Words - a poem
Channel: Julianne Boulton
Date: 2012-08-20

If words can express what we think,
Why can they be so hard to find,
A glare, a stare or a longing look,
Are hard to be understood.

A single word can express 
What a thousand glances say
Yet glances can be taken away
A word once spoken lasts forever

Thoughts when said out loud
Become a part of the speaker
The speaker may forget them
But others always remember

Is this what scares us to say
Things we really want to say
Words when spoken give the listener
A right to judge our thoughts

What is the better philosophy 
To be trapped with words unspoken
Or to set them free without a care
Not knowing what might follow

If words didn't scare me at all
A thousand more words I'd say
For now a choice I make
To keep those words hidden away