Kit Kelen #958 - not telling

958

not telling

dark place they knew

and would not take us

unspeakable

imagine the pain with which they lived

the pictures seared in all their seeing

skin crawled

guts churned

from the fact

of the words

from the numbers they knew

not telling

hands of the drowning

still grip their legs now

can still feel the kick

how they gulped for that air

not telling what they will not tell

not telling what there's not to say

so we will never know

how it was

that they were not for death

not yet

ache or scar

or what they saw

how some were spared

these were the bones

who danced to light

imagine the pain with which they live

imagine the truth of who they are

we will never know