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Open Poetry #40

Silence

Mistletoe Angel

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since 2000-12-17

Posts 32816
Portland, Oregon

0 posted 2007-03-05 03:26 AM

(Here's a re-post of a slow-building yet climatic, intensely emotional song I wrote for my relative Debra Shank after suffering a major car accident which still gives her psychological and emotional trauma to this day, and have re-posted after hearing she has felt worse lately after the loss of her son Jeremy Shank in Iraq last September.

I think and pray for her all the time, and hope she can again break the silence. )

Silence
By: Noah Eaton
10/8/04
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...questions,
they all come spinning,
around your head...
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...sometimes it's hard,
breathing on your own,
we feel our lungs mold into clay...
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...and when you spin around,
searching for the voices in your head,
they all bleed together...
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...hallucinations fill your mind,
and you can't tell,
if you're speaking to God,
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and I would,
if I could,
break this silence...
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...if you can speak first...
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...you're ashamed,
to look in the mirror,
as you're vomiting distress...
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...watching illusions stare from behind,
see you undermined,
lost in the search of an answer...
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you're sick,
and you never realized it,
until you were infected...
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I can see you're afraid,
afraid to step out of the shade,
and break away...
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and it's OK...
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it's OK...
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LET IT OUT,
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give it all away,
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LET IT OUT,
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give it all away,
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FAITH IS AWAKE,
FAITH IS AWAKE,
FAITH IS AWAKE,
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and silence is speaking...
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...you're in,
a crisis of faith,
and it's hard,
to distinguish white from grey...
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...spirits stand like strangers,
where you lie in bed,
you beg them to leave,
but you summoned them in your head...
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...they all stand straight,
you're waiting for an answer,
they say nothing,
you feel the spirits no longer are speaking...
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...but the moment they disperse,
they can see the tear,
falling to your pillow,
from the face you tuck away...
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And I would,
if I could,
break this silence...
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...if you can speak first...
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through this blindness,
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through this darkness,
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through this madness,
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through this iridescence,
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THROUGH THE DESOLATION,
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THROUGH THE ISOLATION,
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THERE COMES CONSOLATION,
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SILENCE MOVES FASTER,
WHEN IT'S MOVING BACKWARD, HEY,
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LET IT OUT,
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give it all away,
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LET IT OUT,
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give it all away,
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FAITH IS AWAKE,
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FAITH IS AWAKE,
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FAITH IS AWAKE,
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and silence is speaking...
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Tapping on your shoulder,
as you sleep,
is only the wind,
of my voice...
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answering...
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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other"

Mother Teresa

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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1 posted 2007-03-05 07:15 AM

heart-touching Noah

I send my prayers too

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