Unsaid  Words

We meet and exchange
congenial greetings,
while unsaid words
tug at our hearts, and
tear at our souls.
Although unsaid,
both hearts have heard,
and cry,
straining to be released --
to say the words, and
be happy we did!

Selfish love cries out
to be released,
to feed upon our
heart and soul,
while hanging in the balance are
spouses, children,
lives and work --
all poised upon the brink
of the catastrophe:
unsaid word's released.

Unselfish love
must sacrifice itself upon
the altar of passion stemmed --
thus abolish guilt,
and pain, and
broken lives.

Can you love me,
hopelessly,
repress desire and
stay the words
that break taboos and
bring us down,
crashing into the abyss
of remorse, and guilt,
and pain?
Can you love me silently, and
let them remain unsaid words?

Dallas D'Angelo-Gary 96