Nishta Goopee - One Poem

if i knew

if i knew
how to say it
if you knew
how to hear it
would the rain
still feel like last month
would the waves
cease to embrace their shore

if i knew how to say it
if you knew how to hear it
would words
still mean what they mean
would silence
ever wish to wail

for far across
the unkwown
i have trodden
like a child searching for the woman in her
like a woman searching for the child in her

bruised
abused
denied
no shoulder could she find
to bear the weight of her cross.

bruised
abused
denied
no door could she knock
with her heaving heart in her palms

if i knew how to say it
if you knew how to hear it
today would have been
a different month

Biography: Nishta Goopee has spent 5 years in India, specialising in English Literature. She has taught in a private college for 4 years. She is also a tarot cards reader, angel cards reader, archer, painter and reiki master. One of her 2012 goals is to publish a collection of her poems.