Walls Can't Talk

If walls could talk

It's a saying in which

I hear far too often

If walls could talk-

Oh the stories they'd tell-

If walls could talk?

But they can't

 

While it's true

That walls have eyes

Walls have ears

And noses and mouths-

Walls have faces

 

But they can't see

They can't hear

They can't smell or talk

Because nails

Have been drilled into their ears

Paint seemed into their eyes

Boards or bricks

Have covered their noses and mouths

Suffocating them

Rendering them forever silent

 

I pray

That walls never talk

For if they do

We'll all hear a story

That's too horrible for words

We'll hear a story

Of the pains of silence