The expression elephant in the room usually the elephant in the room or the elephant in the living room is a metaphorical idiom in english for an important or enormous topic question or controversial issue that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable or is personally socially or politically.
An elephant in the room poem.
There s an elephant in the room.
Yet we squeeze by with how are you and i m fine and a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.
Oh please say her name.
The elephant in the room there s an elephant in the room.
It is large and squatting so it is hard to get around it.
We talk about work.
Oh please say barbara.
It has hurt us all.
The elephant in the room poem by ray mather.
It is constantly on our minds.
For if i cannot then you are leaving.
It has hurt us all but we do not talk about the elephant in the room.
We talk about everything else except the elephant in the room.
Oh please let s talk about the elephant in the room.
Hihihow are you doing.
We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
By my forever child.
But we don t talk about the elephant.
There s an elephant in the room.
We talk about the weather.
For you see it is a very large elephant.
Except the elephant in the room.
The elephant in the room poem.
We all know it s there.
Elephant in the room by terry kettering there s an elephant in the room.
We are thinking about the elephant as we talk together.
For you see it is a very big elephant.
It is constantly on our minds.
Yet we squeeze by with how are you and i m fine and a thousand other forms of trivial chatter.