Crimes of The Tongue

"There are pillows wet by sobs;

there are noble hearts broken in the silence whence comes no cry of protest;

there are gentle, sensitive natures and warped; 

there are old-time friends now separated and walking their lonely ways with hope dead and memory but a pang;

there are cruel misunderstandings that make all life look dark;

these are but a few sorrows  that come from

the crimes of the tongue."
 - The Kingship of Self-Control  (1980)

- A cold Saturday night reading  The Kingship of Self-Control by William George Jordan while Damien Rice's on shuffle.