"Silence..."

When silence isn't...

Silence isn't quiet
gentle
soft
empty...

It isn't fragile
compliant
complacent
and loving...

It isn't golden
nor treasured
or held with dream's delight...

...for some.

"Silence..."

Silence is noise so loud you can't hear.
Its the volume of the anger in another's eyes,
the distance a broken heart FALLS
  til it reaches the rocks it shatters
SOUND-LESS-LY
as it disintegrates through them.

Silence is the crowded room
  you can only exist within;
the walls you didn't build -

surrounding, enclosing... tightening, strangling.

Silence is the sound of footsteps you never heard...
just wished,
and the echo inside -
of feeling the hand you hadn't held.

Silence is the tear as it forms
behind, within, and infront of your eye
for only reasons YOU know
or never knew...
until
the silence
IS

you.

Chris

Author's Note

A member of Saturday - "Once Upon A Time..."

Reviews

[Emily B]

so many flock right to your words . . . sorry it took me so long to get here

[roarke]

excellent juxtaposition. The definition of silence is..... all of those things. Heavy stuff.

[Marie Harrison]

Yes, angry silence is horrible.
But the earth shattering silence
is the absence of someone you love.
Either because they've died or
will never return to your life
for some reason.
That is the worst silence of all.
Wonderful subject for a poem

[J. J. Nightingale]

Silence can feel cruel .. Sometimes the echos are deafening .. I hate those "Silent explosions " .. hitting like a fist .. causing those forever tears ....

Jazz ................

[Teri B]

Well, you already know MY take on the whole "silence" thing, Chris! This is a pretty good evocation, as well...it's raw and opposed and painful, like silence so often is.