HEAR

HEAR

wrote you a poem
but you said
you preferred silence

so I doused  dampened down
the lines made them quiet
as can be

forbade
everything from shouting,
speaking, making
a sound louder
than a whisper

and I would love
my poem to sidle up
right up
    to your ear
almost say
all the things I want to say
that you say
you dare
not hear