Poem

Elephant in the Room” (author unknown)

There's an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting, so it is hard to get around it.
Yet we squeeze by with, "How are you?" and "I'm fine," and a thousand other
forms of trivial chatter. We talk about the weather. We talk about work.
We talk about everything else, except the elephant in the room.

There's an elephant in the room.
We all know it's there. We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
It is constantly on our minds. For, you see, it is a very large elephant.
It has hurt us all.

But we don't talk about the elephant.
Oh, please, let's talk about the elephant in the room.
For if I cannot, then you are leaving me....
alone....
in a room....
with an elephant.


Response: The poem means that the person has a secret that he/she can't let out or tell no one but they want to speak out and tell someone but they can't because they seem to trust no one or are afraid that no one will want to listen to what they have to say and he/she wants someone to hear them out and listen to them and they don't want to suffer the pain alone.