UnheardA Poem by L.A. Hardin
Its always been this way
My voice has never carried a single important note for another None have cherished a word that has fallen from my lips the very foundations of my voice have been shaken and i am left to wonder does anyone listen does anyone hear me although I shout as much as I can silence overcomes me I wallow in my silence it suffocates me, it is loud and bothersome but no one can hear the silence that I pose I scream Inside, so that no one can hear me and think that I am a freak and when I do speak my voice doesn't resonate doesn't move mountains, doesn't cause change, doesn't cause the earth to tremble at my feet It doesn't do anything I try to articulate but the wind catches whatever sound that comes from my vocal cords and chokes it as it comes out I remain unheard A delicate predicament but I have lived so long with it I cannot sleep, cannot eat, because I am still carefully forming the words just so, wondering that if I do so will it make me heard I lose myself, lose my bearings, slip and fall in and out of cracks, just waiting for the day when I will burst and everyone will hear my beautiful words and so that I can become free of this parasitic fear that is drawing my lifeblood from me Staining me, leaving me with marks, totaled and caught up but before then I will have run out of breath to say anything else silence becomes me and I am left breathless and unheard, unbearably. In the end the choice is mine to be left unheard or to keep trying If I want to be heard then let it be
© 2012 L.A. Hardin |
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Added on September 17, 2012 Last Updated on September 17, 2012 |