To Be Not Heard

There are words that I should speak
Yet I save them from you
Feeling that my thoughts are not needed
To be heard...
O my voice!
To be heard...
But I wait.
Ling'ring in my own thoughts-
And the words I should have said
I watch myself
Thinking
And hear myself
Break
I give in
To my thoughts
And become
What I have made myself to be:
An author of the written word
Speaking not
To be truly known only to myself
To be myself
And seldom heard.