Words are empty boats

Floating on an ocean that doesn't know its name

I send them to you

But they arrive different

Laden with cargo I never packed

Speaking languages I never learned

You read between the lines

But what falls through the cracks

Isn't what was lost

But what was never written

Each interpretation

A perfect misunderstanding

More accurate than truth

More honest than intention

We meet

Where my saying ends

And your hearing begins

In the space between meanings

Where nothing is meant

Everything is understood

Where silence speaks

Louder than words

But softer than thought