Communication Poem by Daniel Nairn

Why can't the words I say mean what
I meant to say to you that time?
You heard my voice, but not my mind.
Those words I said: I meant them not!

I can't explain what happens where,
Inside my soul, the thoughts are chained
To cold and concrete walls of pain.
I long to free them from despair.

They fight against their captor: I,
Who cannot speak the word they need
To let them leave my tired head.
Instead they torment me with 'Why.'

'Why spoke you words we never said
Why told you her, when we told you
Those thoughts of ours were never to
Be heard outside your foolish head!

'You made it worse! Explain yourself! '
But how can I, when all my thoughts
Lay trapped
Inside the prison of my mind?