Don't Tell

once it has been done,
the sense of dread and discovery
and the realization that there can
never be any going back, not even
if what has been completed

so irrevocably is never known,
never discovered,
never thought about

in words; but lays there
underneath the surface looking
up into the world:

so deeply held,
so well known,
so tightly bound

and waiting to be
dismantled completely