Robin Amy Bass

IN SILENCE

Your silence says more than
The pictures I have
The ones where the two of us smile
Your silence says more than those five dollar words
You use in your Scorpion style

Your silence is saying you can’t say hello
Or find the desire to try
Your silence is saying I’m not worth your time
You can’t even tell me goodbye

Your silence articulates all that I fear
It leaves me unspeakably cold
I see right before me your door slamming shut
In silence your message is told