Like the Silence

"Let me just hold you"
and my world seemed to melt away
lying, half naked, covered in
the safeness of the words you say

"It's okay to cry here," and I didn't know I
had so many tears inside,
how much easier it was
to just breathe, just hide

"You don't have to talk if you don't want to"
and my words stayed trapped inside my teeth
and like the scars, stayed
buried, like the silence, underneath