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MARRIAGE BUILT ON UNSPOKEN WORDS
<p><br/></p><p>This marriage</p><p>was not broken by violence,</p><p>not shattered by betrayal.</p><p>It cracked quietly</p><p>under the weight of what was never said.</p><p><br/></p><p>Words lived here,</p><p>but they slept in the throat.</p><p>Feelings folded themselves into silence,</p><p>and silence learned how to sit</p><p>between two people</p><p>like an uninvited guest.</p><p><br/></p><p>They argued, yes</p><p>but not with honesty.</p><p>They raised their voices</p><p>instead of raising their truths.</p><p>Small disagreements</p><p>grew teeth,</p><p>and every conversation</p><p>ended before it began.</p><p><br/></p><p>Aristotle once warned,</p><p>“The least initial deviation from truth</p><p>is multiplied later a thousandfold.”</p><p>And here, a small silence</p><p>became a wide distance.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sarcasm replaced sincerity.</p><p>“Oh, nothing is wrong,”</p><p>said everything that was wrong.</p><p>Passive words carried aggressive meanings,</p><p>and love learned to speak</p><p>in riddles instead of clarity.</p><p><br/></p><p>This marriage remembered everything.</p><p>Old arguments were stored</p><p>like unpaid debts.</p><p>Forgiveness was discussed,</p><p>but never practiced.</p><p><br/></p><p>As the scholar Hannah Arendt reminds us,</p><p>“Forgiveness is the only way</p><p>to reverse the irreversible flow of history.”</p><p>But here, the past kept interrupting the present,</p><p>and healing was always postponed.</p><p><br/></p><p>They interrupted each other constantly</p><p>not because they were cruel</p><p>but because they were afraid</p><p>that if they didn’t speak first,</p><p>they would never be heard.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet bell hooks whispered a truth</p><p>they never learned to apply:</p><p>“Love is an act of will</p><p>both an intention and an action.”</p><p>Listening, too,</p><p>is an action.</p><p><br/></p><p>This marriage was loud,</p><p>but never deep.</p><p>Busy, but never intentional.</p><p>Together, but never fully seen.</p><p><br/></p><p>Until one day,</p><p>exhaustion knocked louder than anger.</p><p>And silence finally asked a question:</p><p>“What if we talked</p><p>not to win</p><p>but to understand?”</p><p><br/></p><p>Rumi once said,</p><p>“Beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,</p><p>there is a field.</p><p>I’ll meet you there.”</p><p>But to meet there,</p><p>someone must first speak the truth</p><p>without sharpening it into a weapon.</p><p><br/></p><p>A marriage cannot survive</p><p>on love alone.</p><p>It feeds on words,</p><p>gentle words,</p><p>honest words,</p><p>spoken before resentment</p><p>learns to speak for you.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because unspoken words</p><p>do not disappear.</p><p>They wait.</p><p>They grow.</p><p>And one day,</p><p>they speak</p><p>as distance.</p><p><br/></p><p>This is a marriage built on unspoken words</p><p>still standing,</p><p>but fragile.</p><p>Still together,</p><p>but learning, at last,</p><p>that silence is not peace</p><p>and love deserves a voice.</p>
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