"What scares you?" she asked.
I laughed. "Words. I always fear words. They are inconsistent. They are the most powerful and deceiving way that could make or break a person.
It could be manipulated or probably too late to be reconstructed. It is either you'll hear a truth in a tone of lie or believe a lie that sounded like truth.
It's always unpredictable. You don't know when is the right time of it to hurt you, or how it will be made to mend you.
It's hard to read the words that was never written but it was terribly harder to unhear the words that are already said.
You simply don't know what are the exact words that will come out so most of us are always unprepared.
Last time it was a sugar sound of 'I love you' echoing through the hallway of your apartment building. Then the next time, it became a transparent sound of 'we're done' slowly fading from your doorstep
YOU ARE READING
POETRY THAT STAYS
PoetryYou don't really love someone, not until they become the person behind of your poetries. When poetry speaks, it echoes through your soul, lingers in your heart, and dances in your dreams. And... it stays. I wrote poems enough for people to ask, "w...
