Dedicated to the Amazing Michael Jackson..."What Did You Endure"

"What Did You Endure Behind the Hidden Words You Never Spoke"

Behind the shadows of your mind, you told me so many things~ without really saying anything,
so what should I have seen that I missed?

The pain and hurt you carried all of your life, and yet I never really knew the depths of it,till you
were gone, and now it's too late, and though~ with all that I am, I want to bring you back...
I, cannot...

What did you Endure? Behind the hidden words you never spoke~ should I have been able to
look beyond what I could not see, and read those words? I wish I would have seen the silent pain
you sat in~ lonely, but yet not alone...

Maybe you would still be here today~if I had only known, but you are gone,and I don't know what to do, to "right the
wrongs" that have been done to you...

What did you feel? Behind that "Smile" you showed the world, the softest sweetest side of you,but what was
really going on, hidden deep beneath that "Smile" you portrayed to all~ should I have seen, the inner pain~
and if I could have, would things be different?

"They" took you away before you were EVEN GONE~ Killed your soul with lies and deception,mistrust,hate,evil,prejudice,~all
the things that you stood up to fight against,

I watched as you silently slipped away, one little bit of your soul at a time, ~like a piece of a missing puzzle,never to
be fully complete...they tore away at your very being.

I am so sorry I did not "See" what you could not "Say" in words~ I should have "Seen" it on your face, "Felt" it from
your heart, "heard" it from your soul~ but... with such deep pain and regret, I did not...and now you are gone forever, and
nothing ~ ever, will bring you back.

So how do I live with what I know that you did not say? I will not sit back,silently~ any longer~ for as a story needs to
be written, this one is etched in my mind,ready to be told~ and in time, you will have true vindication~my promise to you.
I loved you~ I love you still,and I cannot stand quietly behind the masquerade of life, and not let the world know,
what I know ~ the unspoken words you told me... that I did not hear, till...now.


"Love Lives On" ~J.Michaels 

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