The world is too small

It hurts her to laugh too hard

Words unspoken grow like vines

Wrap around my neck

But the heart was not enough

To keep it all inside

The silent folding

Of a hard man

Disrupted the story I told

He wanted to know what was down there

Down in the abyss of my soul

What secrets I was scared to hold to light

Scared of knowing myself

But we have to see

Because the world is too small for the three of us

So I tell myself

That curiosity is a discipline

And all the things

My father never said