Communication <br /> We talked across an invisible curtain <br /> Both of us using a second language <br /> Trying to express our <br /> Maternal thoughts. <br /> <br /> In a locked room <br /> Fearful I'd never return to talk again, <br /> To continue our sad comedy of misunderstanding <br /> You couldn't bear to let me go. <br /> <br /> In the end, <br /> Our only fluent tongue was body language. <br /> Yours more violent, due to passion <br /> Reducing me to a series of flinches and dodges. <br /> <br /> Exhausted <br /> Mental, spiritual, emotional, internal wounds <br /> Bruises won't show their colors for long if at all. <br /> I understood your meaning across the verbal barrier.<br /><br />Bethani Ann DeLong<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/communication-7/
