Unspeakable



She stood there quivering,
Then about to speak the unspeakable,
Unbinding her tongue she opened her mouth
With a few words and a quaint sob escaping her mouth
Stood there blinking
Not knowing what to speak pain unfurling her heart
She looked at his eyes directly but could not even sound her pain
In anger he broke the silence and without any thought
He pulled out his knife and there she stood with her eyes filled with tears
Trying to speak what she couldn’t express
With her tongue out she uttered o’vr there… and stopped
Lost in anger he cut off her tongue
Without being able to utter she stood unspeakable
For ever hidden
Behind the wound she hid her pain
The culprit walked free
He did not know that behind her pain
Was a greater wound than just this wounded tongue
Her eyes pleading to the cruelty of human heart
She held her heart and head high
Lost in thoughts to tell him of her story
She started writing her diary
Often up from her bed late at night
She dotted many a line
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Submitted on September 15, 2016

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCADEFGHIJBKELEJDMLLNO
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,127
Words 24
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24

Jasmine fernandez

Jasmine Fernandez is a research scholar in English from the school of humanities and social science, Indian Institute of Technology Indore,India. She has many poems published in international and national journals. more…

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