Hurting

Speaking
                        words escape my tongue
                        landing freely and dangerously
                        behind enemy ears
                        Never to be returned
                        buried by betrayal
                        under the sorrowful silence

                        Hurting
                        tears abandon my eyes
                        stealing away silently and painfully
                        into my clenched fists
                        Chained in love's memory
                        of a forgotten dance
                        we shared...

                        Or so I once believed