by Geraldine Moorkens Byrne

Created on: May 09, 2009

I heard your news
in the gaps between words.
In the unspoken,lay the truth.
My heart broke without a sound;
When asked what you said,
I was speechless.

I have not complained;
not a word of mine spoken.
I offer no testimony against you.
My suffering bears mute witness
and no one can say
that I told them.

I listened with care
and the silence you offered
opened chasms of hell at my feet.
If you had but said one word of defence
I would have said
He told me so.

I cannot proove it
no court will allow it and
no ink will proclaim it to the world
But in the absence of words
loud and clear
I heard it.

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