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The Things We Cannot Say

by Niamh O'Shea

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A spoken word reflection on connection, silence, and the unseen emotions we carry within us. This offering explores the things we often struggle to put into words… grief, longing, tenderness, love, and the desire to feel truly understood.

Transcript

There are things The heart carries that words.

Cannot always reach.

Too deep for language.

Too vast to explain.

The quiet ache of missing someone.

While they are still standing in front of you.

Sometimes we smile while carrying sorrow.

Sometimes we say I'm fine.

Because we do not know where to begin unraveling the truth.

Sometimes.

The body speaks first.

Through heaviness,

Through exhaustion.

Through the breath catching suddenly in the middle of an ordinary day.

There are conversations we rehearse silently for years.

Things we wish we had said.

Things we needed to hear.

Apologies that never arrive.

Feelings that remained living quietly beneath the surface.

And yet,

Even inside silence,

Something in us is always reaching.

Wanting to be understood.

Wanting to be met without needing to explain every wound completely.

Perhaps this is why music moves us so deeply.

Why certain words bring tears without warning.

Why another person saying me too can loosen something.

We have carried alone for far too long.

Perhaps not everything needs to become language to be real.

Perhaps some things are simply meant to be felt.

Held gently.

Carried softly between human beings trying to find one another.

Through all the distance,

All the longing.

All the things we never fully learned how to say aloud.

And maybe that is enough sometimes.

To know another person.

Felt it too.

Beside her soul besides soul.

You

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Recent Reviews

Jim

June 22, 2026

Beautiful! Thank you for this reminder.

Hazel

June 21, 2026

Rich & deep! Thank you!

Christine

June 21, 2026

Beautiful

Christine

June 21, 2026

Beautiful!

ccue

June 20, 2026

Thank you such a beautiful words and singing. It helps so much

Christine

June 20, 2026

Thank you. That meant so much.

D

June 19, 2026

Beautifully presented. The message was well received. Thank you!

Leslie

June 19, 2026

Deserves more than 5 stars….thank you!

Regina

June 19, 2026

💖❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🤎🖤🩶🤍 thank you for these touching and lovely and beautiful and profound words and voice.

Beverly

June 18, 2026

Beautiful and felt so deeply. 🥹 Everything about this is healing! ❤️‍🩹Such tenderness and warmth, like a balm. Deep gratitude, love and grace 🙏🏽💚✨🕊️

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