A Letter to the Poems I Never Shared

A Letter to the Poems I Never Shared

A Poem by Brigid Cooley

You are not mistakes.

You are lessons learned, risks taken, words unforgotten, thoughts explored but never vocalized.

Just because you were read to an audience of one,

(that one being me)

does not mean you haven't touched a heart or served a purpose.

I don't know if you know this, but sometimes the words left unspoken are the ones most important.

Sometimes words that are locked away, deep in the corners of a persons heart are the ones that are too precious.

So precious that they don't allow anyone else to see them.

No one else will need them the way the author does.

The lines I wrote into you are the ones that I remember best.

You are important. You are not mistakes. I do not regret creating you.

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