Words from Inside My Head

you respond to what wasn’t said, then take my words
and turn them into weapons, complete with a silencer, 
hear them without listening, then quickly respond

to what you thought was meant, with fast words shot
out like bullets in defense of what wasn’t the intent.
Words can be clumsy attempts at expressions

of feelings; even if we speak the same language,
they don’t always clearly deliver the meaning
of the message. What we’re certain we have heard,

may later be realized as an insight we aimed
to defend from revealing
to ourself.