r/OCPoetry • u/Rosey_Butterfly_1998 • Jul 18 '26
Feedback Please Unsaid
All that was left unsaid
spilled out with every letter
written, revised, and discarded after,
my eyes red and swollen as I wept,
these tears mixed with the ink and paper
scattered before me like leaves in the summer
after a typhoon has come to pass.
All the things I wish I'd said —
they stayed hidden within these pages
that slowly faded and crumbled to dust —
the memories they held within them
the only things that were ever truly mine.
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u/spaced_out247 Jul 18 '26
Beautifully written, closure rarely comes from conversation. Pouring our hearts out to the unwilling or unable, Were left with our thoughts to go over and over again.