Unspeakable

 Words

To never say again
As real as
Ice cream cones
Bright red remote control cars
And tiny fake Christmas trees

The silence
Screams inside filthy
Windows striped
With rain
Pain
Death and medicine

Words
You will not offer
Again
Fight you
A warrior in doctor's scrubs
A doctor wielding a gun?
They fight you like
White blood cells inside
A dying body

No matter how much you wish
To say them
Or how often you do
They melt inside you
Burning things that never
Saw
The sun

Words
You wish you could say
Again
Break you
After years
A decade like a century
Heavier than even
A mother's love

Frozen
Dead before they begin
An
I
Love
You

That has no
You
And with an
I

That's
Dying