Only Open Your Mouth If

Please only open your mouth

If what you have to say
is more beautiful than the silence.
Because this silence is mending,
Listening,
To the heartache
And to the loneliness.
That are speaking volumes.

Please only open your mouth
If your ears have the courage to hear
What may come next.
Because I've had a lot on my mind lately,
And it needs to be heard

Please only open your mouth
If you are going to explain your eyes to me.
Because I can't tell what they love anymore,
that soft kindness is gone.

and I don't know which is more troubling,

Your eyes

Or the way they made me feel.

But if you feel you must speak,

Let your mind speak freely,

Then try giving you heart a turn

Because I haven't heard what it's had to say

For quite a while now.

And now I'm starting to wonder,
If i ever heard it at all.