Sometimes the hardest reply
is the one you haven’t sent yet.
Folded Letters catches Lisa Coles in the small space between receiving a message and deciding what to do with it. She types, deletes, rereads and waits, knowing there is something she wants to say but unable to find a version that feels right. The longer she leaves it, the harder keeping quiet becomes.
I read your message again
I don’t know if I should reply
You say it like it’s simple
Like nothing really changed
I read it through twice
Still don’t know what you mean
I hold the phone in my hand
Wait for something to land
I can’t hold it in
I can’t hold it in
I start to type, then erase it
Watch the words disappear
There’s a way I could say it
I just don’t make it clear
I let the silence sit
See what it does to me
I can’t hold it in
I can’t hold it in
Say it now or leave it
I can’t hold it in
I can’t hold it in
I can’t hold it in