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Lost Languages |
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Mabel A. Dilley Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859Seattle, WA, USA |
 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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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
You're looking in my mirror again, right? This...is awesome.... |
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Katherine Chandler Member
since 2001-03-07
Posts 280Florida, USA |
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.  KateBlessings Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood. |
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Mysteria 
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
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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Joyce Johnson
since 2001-03-10
Posts 9912Washington State |
I'm sorry so many can relate to these sad words. Very well penned. Joyce |
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Mabel A. Dilley Senior Member
since 2001-03-17
Posts 859Seattle, WA, USA |
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." |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
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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