A Thousand Words

They say a picture is worth a thousand words 

But I don’t understand how one image can replace a plethora of nouns and verbs? 

I think it’s less about the image and more words come from a lack thereof 

Because one day you can come home to an image gone and that’s a thousand words no longer spoken of

You explore a home and see a beautiful gold trimmed image of a bride and groom 

You see pictures of their smiling children and there is a level of happiness that you presume 

You say, “Wow what a beautiful home and family this is” 

You don’t even take 2 seconds more to ponder what life may have looked like for that mother, father, and their kids 

The images fail to mention the unforgivable words that have been spoken 

It doesn’t show the words the bride begins crying to her daughter after her hearts been broken 

You can’t hear as they continuously over share, overbearing the heart of their daughter 

No, all you can see is the image that we picked and the words that it seemingly offers 

Now you come back to the home and there is an empty nail on the wall

You hurriedly pick up a phone and give that bride from the image a call

You say, “where is it?” And she tells you the truth, no detail does she spare 

You ask about the life of her children because as it appears, now you care

All it took was one picture taken off the wall for there to be a thousand new words for you to ask 

Now you are telling me a thousand words I lived through like it’s your God given task 

So yeah there is that saying, “An image speaks a thousand words” 

But If that’s true then an image removed must speak the words that have gone unheard.