It's Up To Words...or Not

 Writer's Digest PAD Challenge day 20: For today’s prompt, write a poem of what goes unsaid

Speak before we think

Or think before we speak

It is this response that shows

Character, strong, weak

Voice our strong opinion

…or speak not a word

Often what we really say

Is far more seen than heard

Should somebody stumble

Or should someone fall

Lend a hand to help them, then

Let silence say it all

Word upon the tongue, love

Is but blatant noise

If it does not jive with

That which Touch deploys

Sweet second mile silence

Tells more by its care

Than proficient tongue-manship

Spilling from a chair

Knowing when to list, love

Knowing when to speak

The spirit is willing

But the mouth is weak

© Janet Martin