The Words I Won't Say

Words

I don't feel like saying

I'm afraid of writing

because of two great fears:

The first

That they will fall

on deaf ears

into silence;

evaporated vibrations--

The second 

That they will stray

stolen from my lips

a page disappearing from beneath my pen

And that I will fall

into silence;

evaporated personhood.

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