| I wrote this poem for a girl who I thought the world of that I met at the Governor's Honors Academy in high school. However, she was involved and I just did not know how to tell her how I felt. One day I saw the phrase "just another brick in the wall" (which I did not know at the time was from Pink Floyd's "The Wall") and became inspired. I do not think that I ever shared this poem with her. However, I intended to do so, which is why I wrote the poem in such a vague way. I thought that a love without expression was much like a poem without words. |
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| a poem without words must sometimes remain |
| shrouded by darkness, clandestine to all, |
| without any glory, without any fame, |
| just another brick in the wall |
| some poems are spoken, some poems are sung, |
| some poems are published, or heard by a crowd, |
| but this is a poem which doesn't belong; |
| a poem not meant to be spoken aloud |
| hemingway, longfellow, whitman, thoreau, |
| wishing to be spoken, wanting to be read, |
| dickinson, elliot, shakespeare, and poe, |
| why can this poem never be said |
| this poem has meaning, this poem has worth, |
| this poem has everything, except-words |
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