Mar 2022
It is a lie.
I can’t get into your skin
nor see the blight on your soul
nor know the wealth of your life
in the darkness and the light.
It seems to me – and I could be wrong –
these four words
discount the other’s experience
dismiss the depth of a friend’s feeling.
Can’t I come up with something more creative?
Ask a question to find out more?
Have NOT been there
like you have.
I can’t get into your skin
nor see the blight on your soul
nor know the wealth of your life
in the darkness and the light.
It seems to me – and I could be wrong –
these four words
discount the other’s experience
dismiss the depth of a friend’s feeling.
Can’t I come up with something more creative?
Ask a question to find out more?
Have NOT been there
like you have.
I thank Maddy for her poem - https://hellopoetry.com/poem/4556798/prefix-and-suffix/ that caused me to think about the impact of those four words and thus became the inspiration for this poem.
