I paused. The most important things are the hardest to say. I wrote: Please keep a dictionary beside you As you read this excerpt from my heart I paused again; ‘I could hear my heart beating, I could hear everyone’s heart I could hear the human noise we sat there, making Not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark’ I felt the intricacies of these words in the cold recesses of my soul I tried to voice out the words But I just could not For they were stuck, locked up in my larynx Talk! Talk! I heard him scream through his eyes I shook my head mildly I couldn’t I just couldn’t His heart, was breaking The poem ends thus...
