Things you shouldn't say

Somewhere along the way I missed the memo.

Perhaps it was a fluff-cloud day,

When my heart was in the sky,

My attention wandering.

Or maybe fear

Clanked chains so loud

I simply didn’t hear.

Or maybe my parents.

For reasons all their own

Forgot to give the message.

Perhaps I was simply

Socially dyslexic -

Or someone switched the tags?

Somehow, it seems, I never learned the rules.

So much is understood, but never spoken

By some strange code whose key I never saw:

Truth reconstructed in a neater frame

To fit in some denatured comfort zone.

I will go wander with the daffodils,

Who never blush or stammer at my words,

And maybe ponder this strange mystery,

Or maybe not .. perchance a bird might sing. ..