The Unsaid, The Unspeakable.

"Can I tell you something? There are a lot of empty boxes in your head Sam."... "There are a lot of empty boxes in there, and you can put things in them."... My voice sounded wary, even to me. "What kind of things?"... "Sad things," Beck said. "Do you have a lot of sad things in your head?" ... "No," I said... Beck sucked in his lower lip and released it slowly. "Well, I do."... This was shocking. I didn't ask a question but I tilted toward him. ... "And these things would make me cry. they used to make me cry all day long"... "Do you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put tape on them and I staked them up in the corner and threw a blanket over them... Now I don't have to look at those sad things any more. I could open the boxes sometime, I guess, if I wanted to....... " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Souls Lifting the Blanket