Your blank expression
Says a thousand words
But the sound from your mouth
Is silent, it’s absurd
I wait for words, an explanation
You wait for courage to say
Words that could send me in
The opposite direction.

I’m sitting, frozen, in anticipation
With the fear of what’s approached
I need peace, I need protection
But it’s not those that I need the most
I need your embrace, your reassurance
That everything will be fine
Single sounds tumble out your mouth
As you take my hands
And they mean a hundred lines
Here inside.

The words that follow
Run through my mind
The worst was what
I expected to find
I thought you said
I was one of a kind
As I hold back the tears
I don’t want to show
These words in my mind
Play over, time after time.

As you open up
A tear falls down
What are you saying?
That you don’t want me around?
You reassure me that
That isn’t the case
Then is it something
A lot harder to face?

The words that follow
Run through my mind
The worst was what
I expected to find
I thought you said
I was one of a kind
As I hold back the tears
I don’t want to show
These words in my mind
Play over, time after time.