penny for your thoughts

lyssa.

penny for your thoughts?

and you don't say anything

but i can still hear

your throat clench and unclench

and you still shake

just enough beside me that

your eyes, looking

towards the ceiling but not

at anything, water almost

like you care about what

you're not saying.

dime for your thoughts?

wait, s**t, i forgot nickels.

nickel for your thoughts?

a breath this time, not

particularly slow but somewhat

unsteady. there's a noise in the

back of your throat

that sounds like crying but

it's gone a moment after

it sounds, and i'm not sure if

it was real.

dime for your thoughts?

nothing.

quarter for your thoughts?

...

i'll give you all i have.

how are you so good

at unsaying things

that haven't

even been

said?

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

wow this is deep and hauntingly worded...

there used to be a game show on tv years ago...and the game show host would always introduce it by expressing "it's not what you say that counts, it's what you don't say"

silence can be deafening...and some are really good at being mum. Others might need to be more often.