Voices of Pain

I can hear them,

Their crying,

Their pain,

Slowly dying.

They tell their souls,

And secrets dark,

To strangers weep,

And to the unfamiliar they hark.

No one can hear them,

their silent screaming,

Yet their text based plea's,

Their souls constant streaming.

Are we cowards?

To hide behind a digital mask,

We hide our pain from those we know,

and help from strangers ask.

It seems a poets curse,

to tell their soul in rhyme and verse,

To hide their soul from family and friend,

To guard their feelings until the end.

Author's Note

The end has a small bit of "paper" in it as this poem is continuation of sorts to "paper"

Reviews

[Josephine Nive]

lots of emotion!

[darkgurl]

Hmm, i guess i shall answer yes i may be a coward. Love the emotion intertwined in this. I really enjoyed the ending.

[Nate E. Flake (Cösmic ..]

Love how the ending of each line rhyme..."ababcdcd..." type of rhyme scheme, I believe.!

[Brittany W]

"Are we cowards?
To hide behind a digital mask,"
these is a great lines, it shows we do hid who we are behind things, its a front, if things are going bad, we often act as if nothings going on to hide our true pain.

[Tomás Ó C..]

"It seems a poets curse,
to tell their soul in rhyme and verse"...

Powerful...