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Desperate Quietness

I can feel it, that desperate quietness, permeating my soul

it seizes me in those empty hours of reflection

the silence is poisionous, toxic in its contents

casting shadows against the walls of my indifference

 

Guttered and broken, sounds of lonliness makes silence

that screams my desire to be released from this dreamer's disease

Tell me I'm not dead to the world even as my spirit evaporates

into colors of numbing and desperate quietness

 

 

marjorie

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     l eslie         01/17/09

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  • Bob Fox
    January 24

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    Poet

    The deafening silence of loneliness. How it can cripple our hopes & destro our dreams. But as a poet your words are a great outlet.


  • Daire
    January 23
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    I too can be painfully quiet at times. Especially around strangers and family members. It certainly is "numbing", as you say. But loneliness is even worse. I absolutely love the lines: "the silence is poisionous, toxic in its contents/casting shadows against the walls of my indifference". Imaginative and meaningful.