Extractions hurt. We know it.
Even lignocaine
Cannot completely obviate
The sense of searing pain.
Communication’s difficult.
We know this truth as well.
No anaesthetic, analgesic
To help your truth to tell.
For some, it’s just too painful
A hardship to reveal
What they think or may believe,
Even what they feel.
Some struggle with this facet
Of a person’s character.
Like guessing at a game,
Charades for him or her.
There’s always some new method
Of extracting what is worth
Being said or spoken of.
Sometimes silence is a curse.
What is thought is guessed at
But that’s another game,
Communication’s worth its weight
While hidden feels like shame.
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