I am burying love between these few lines
on pages of a book you will never read,
hundreds of love notes addressed to you
which I will never send
because you believed
love should be spoken, never composed
yet you, you interrupted every word I said.
even my pen fell silent
tired of writing in braille for blind eyes
which refused to feel.
maybe one day you will find them
and thumb your way through
these tear-stained words,
letting them seep, deep into your soul
but by then I will be gone; I already am
my pen frantically scrawling new chapters
for someone who didn’t hesitate
to read between the lines.
BIOGRAPHY:
Karen Richards is a Tasmanian born and bred poet. She is the published author of ‘The Way
My Words Fall’ and her second collection ‘Wrapped in Folds of Midnight’ will be released
August 23rd. You can find more of her work at @kalou_poetry on Instagram.