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Mabel A. Dilley
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0 posted 2001-03-22 09:29 PM





How can I tell you what emptiness feel like?
How the words that used to come so easily - don't
how the beginning of a new language for us to share
is a mystery.

How can we live in silence for one more day?
How can I show what fulfillment is when your emptiness
precludes self-recognition?

How can I tell you what emptiness feels like
when your hands and heart deny me the language
we once shared?

When your hasty hurried hurting hands
that once taught syntax to my skin
have handled and rejected all the recent news of me?

How can I tell you what emptiness feels like
when all the words we've wasted wither
welcome on the tongue?

How can I speak to you of emptiness or anything
when all our languages have become languages of one?

Who can I talk to about emptiness?
When the crystal night is broken under hands
that cannot hear, a tongue that cannot form
the letters that once scribed our love
revealed - a stranger in my private rooms.

"I am not now that which I have been."

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1 posted 2001-03-22 09:33 PM


You're looking in my mirror again, right? This...is awesome....
Katherine Chandler
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2 posted 2001-03-23 12:18 PM


I remember the first time I read this poem, how I felt the words looking directly my way. Outstanding writing, my friend, I really enjoyed this. Kate
Blessings

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T S Eliot

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3 posted 2001-03-23 12:33 PM


Ah the other "C" word that is fatal! I have to agree with the girls, it sure killed my marriage, as when the words are gone, only silence remains. Fantastic!
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4 posted 2001-03-23 11:38 AM


I'm sorry so many can relate to these sad words. Very well penned. Joyce
Mabel A. Dilley
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5 posted 2001-03-24 02:42 PM


I provide direct services to people with disabilities. Many are affected by disabling conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and developmental delay.

I watch them adapt to new circumstances and stuggle to find new ways of communicating with the world around them, families and friends.Thus the lost languages of prior communication modalities.

Thank you so very much for reading and leaving a comment. Shalom, Julian

"I am not now that which I have been."

Bill Charles
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6 posted 2001-03-24 04:39 PM


Julian Lester - you have described emptiness well in your writing. At times I feel as if she is my best friend.

BC

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