What is said in the unspoken?
In shared glances
In messages deleted
In letters left in the bedside tables and
Notes left in the backs of drawers
Pens with ink that haven't been bled
And pages empty, wishing they could say
The message you think but won't put down
Or say aloud
But I can hear in the spoken pauses
The extra breath between sentences
The stutter in your words
Can you read between the lines
See behind the camera lens
Hear the chord missing from the harmony?
Are these audible pauses
Or am I the fool, listening to silence
As it speaks volumes?