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Listening to every heart

0 posted 2003-11-18 03:12 PM

Silent Utterances

Though she never held the babe from birth,
but only days into weeks into months after, still,
a connection of heart held them then, holds them now…
the child always knew when the mother pained…

She loved to claim her ESP, as mothers do,
knowing things that mothers should never know,
and she was going to live to be one hundred and fifty,
to outlast that gosh-awful red furniture,
inherited by the mere fact her own mother
did not wish to want it any longer,

so when the silent sigh escaped her lips
as the upholstered red wearing wore thin,
it was a relief the child heard, though hundreds of miles away…
for she had grown to womanhood
with a giving father who lost it all in illness;
she realized the spoil of her gains,
and did not bring that to her children…

her only claim to beauty was the bright red of lips,
slicking brilliant against her pale countenance,
but her eyes, her green eyes, were ever brilliant,
so much so that between her eyes, and her lips,
her face glowed, certainly and most especially, under his gaze…

but silent utterances
between mother, and child, were never worn thin,
nor masked by lips, red,
nor spoiled by gifts of time, nor heard, by others…

and this comes to her daughter, in days,
through touching wisps of fog in May, or childhood’s blue of sky,
or the feel of aging skin under fingertips,
as she recalls the way her mother’s felt at this age…

The day of that call, an announcement of her mis-belief,
from one who claimed the sky was green if she said so,
that one hundred and fifty candles would never grace a cake,
the push-pull of the joke-curt truth,
left each silent, uttering unheard thoughts,
pushing love through phone cords faster than any speed of sound,
as silent tears came from wells of forever love…

as the child always knew when the mother pained…
"What do you want me to do?" …"Understand,"
Silent utterances

Dedicated in Memory of
Jacqueline S. Rilling
1931-1992

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1 posted 2003-11-18 03:20 PM

I have been so deeply affected by your words, that tears are running down my cheeks as I key my reply... Three times I have read "Silent Utterances", and there will be more, for I have now saved it to a very special file.