{"sf1_id":523851,"sf2_id":"pnG5LpXe","title":"Unspoken","author":"Xandie","words":133,"posted_at":"2013-04-08T05:23:00.000Z","tags":["First Person","Poem","Sad"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/523851-unspoken","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/pnG5LpXe","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/06/79/0679de79-2cd3-42e7-a6e4-ddf0d653e70e","description":"A new poem I wrote about a month back.","content":"I'm sorry\n\nFor the things\n\nI do not say\n\nEven when the words\u0026nbsp;\n\nDo come\n\nThey stick upon\n\nMy tongue\n\nAnd slowly\n\nFade away.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou keep me\u0026nbsp;\n\nOn a ledge\n\nWhere I can only\n\nFall\n\nI could walk along it\n\nBut never\n\nFrom it\n\nCan\n\nI stray.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nI'm frightened\n\nBy the thought\n\nOf slipping\n\nFrom your edge\n\nTo the tide\n\nBelow\n\nBroken limbs\n\nAnd battered heartbeats\n\nLeft\n\nWhispering my dismay.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nYou could\n\nPush me off\n\nWatch me\n\nFall\n\nInto the sea\n\nListen to my\n\nHeart's lament\n\nAnd leave me\n\nShattered\n\nWhere I lay.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe ocean\n\nCould swallow me\n\nTrap me\n\nBeneath its waves\n\nAnd\n\nAll those words\n\nI could never say\n\nWould remain\n\nUpon my tongue\n\nUntil\n\nThey too are\n\nSlowly\n\nWashed away.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nCopywritten to Xander Bradeshaw.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}