#PoetryFriday - Spaces

I live in the spaces between your words.

I am the unsaid truth

of your experience.

You form letters into words

and you speak them

to everyone you meet.

But, they are a mask.

Your truth lies

in between

the outward notions

that you share with everyone else.

I exist;

but, I am unsaid.

I am invisible

except to you.

Why don’t you reveal yourself?

Are you afraid?

They read your words

written on the page

that you share with the world.

Your words tell them nothing,

except what they can see.

But, your truth lies in the spaces,

and inhabits a world of hidden meaning.

Don’t hide behind

an army of letters and numbers and words.

Don’t use the words

as a barrier

to the spaces

where your true self lives.

Speak to them

of hidden spaces

between the words.

I live in the spaces between your words.