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Song of Silence
I learned young
how to shove my private thoughts down,
to put them on display for no false listeners;
those who would blindly pin judgement to me.
I sang a song of silence.
Secondhand grief eats at my heart.
Watching people suffer,
no words of mine able to console.
Imploring God to help me take their pain away,
I fail to bear the burden.
I sang a song of silence.
Pushed and pulled by greedy hands in different directions,
my happiness determined by everyone but myself.
I stomped and resisted and cried tears of blue
looking around desperately for anyone
that coiuld look in my eyes and understand the hurt.
I opened my mouth to scream, plead, even whisper,
but it had been too long.
My lips knew no sound.
I sang a song of silence.
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I wrote this piece in memory of Emily S., whom I did not know well but my friends did. I wrote it while watching them try to deal with her passing.