Untalked-About (Poetry)

I did not keep secrets from you
there were things you never asked
so there was no need to answer
no reason to explain or try
to put into words
why things were the way
they were for us

You didn’t question it
but accepted it like the weather
sun, rain, wind, snow ...
your small face set in its expression
knowing the seasons pass

So I did not lie to you
or even skirt around the truth
such as it was
it simply hung around untalked-about
not forbidden or forgotten
but almost casually overlooked
a subject put off for another time
                                                perhaps ...