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What Is Left Unsaid
We carefully speak
Around the painful loss
As though the words
Form a distinct outline
Of what is gone
Like a graphic photo negative
The background defines the image
The darkness focuses the light
The blackness surrounds the white
Out of respect we avoid mention
Of the dead
Around the painful loss
As though the words
Form a distinct outline
Of what is gone
Like a graphic photo negative
The background defines the image
The darkness focuses the light
The blackness surrounds the white
Out of respect we avoid mention
Of the dead
Published 2nd Sep 2014
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2nd Sep 2014 7:34am
3rd Sep 2014 8:41pm
Touching. You depicted the loss of a beloved and the mourner's muteness so intensely. Great piece.
