Silence in Verse...

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To those of you who don't know, today is the day of silence, and from the time I woke up this morning to the time I go to sleep tonight (or midnight, whichever comes first), I will be silent. I am proud of my self in the fact that I have only slipped twice, and each time I have caught myself before more than a word has dropped from my lips. I don't know if my silence today has made a difference, but I know that being silent has caused a change in me. So, I wrote a poem.

Silently I Scream

Lips sealed shut

By a ribbon carefully cut

To wrap around the face

And keep my words in place

Because today, I am silent.

My silence seems to ring so loud

As I make my way through the crowd

And yet every other day

They don’t react the same way

To the same sort of silence.

Maybe that’s because now they can see

The silence that has come to be

From all the pain that comes with love

And all of those other things we’re so scared of.

They’re scared of the silence.

I cannot say that I am not

But, right now, silence is the only voice that I’ve got, 

Because whenever I scream, no matter how loud,

The louder I get the easier it is for them to shut me out.

To them, I’m just silent.

What they don’t realize is that right now

I’m getting through to them, somehow.

The silent scream is the loudest that will be heard.

Behind the silence there are all too many words,

For them to ignore my silence.

Before too long, the ribbon will fall,

Too you, that may mean nothing at all,

But to me that means hiding my silence behind a smile.

At least that’s how it’s a been for quite a while.

All my life, I’ve been silent.

I can’t keep quiet any more,

And the next time I walk through that door,

All those who’ve hurt will have their day

Where they finally see that it will be okay.

That will be the end of the silence.

Well, that is it. My feeble attempt at making sense of the hell that's been consuming my thoughts for far too long. That hell can be summed up as silence, and that is what I am trying to end today. Today is about getting people to realize that silence is not the same as emptiness, because silence is actually one of the fullest sounds that there is.

That's my spiel for today. Good night my lovelies. Valete!