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Sven
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0 posted 2000-04-08 10:01 PM


there is much power in silence
there's the silence of a moment lost
lost to time in the space of an instant
sometimes that moment can be worth a great cost

the silence can also be filled with words
but unless those words have not been heard before
they merely echo off of the walls and evaporate
and i don't want to hear them anymore

so unless you've got something real and honest to say
don't fill the silence with empty words
just let the silence fill the room, let it fill my heart
and then maybe you'll hear what needs to be heard

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 That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


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Lone Wolf
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1 posted 2000-04-08 10:19 PM


Sven,
Nice poem.  Powerful words in this one.  Perhaps if you listened, there would not be so much silence.  If you believed, those words may not be so empty.  Something to think about...

 Friends are friend forever if the Lord's the Lord of them and a friend will not say never cause the welcome will not end.
--Michael W. Smith

achicade
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since 2000-04-02
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Marietta, GA USA
2 posted 2000-04-08 10:25 PM


Lovely! And so true....


 God bless you all. :-)
-debbie-

Joel the wolf
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3 posted 2000-04-09 01:42 AM


We do tend to fill the silence with useless noise
Joel.
good work.

[This message has been edited by Joel the wolf (edited 04-09-2000).]

Isis
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Sunny Queensland
4 posted 2000-04-09 02:05 AM


My response?  Listen and you tell me what you hear Sven?
Isis

 A heart and soul are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others...
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)


Isis
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5 posted 2000-04-09 07:57 PM


I''ll further that comment....  silence speaks volumes, an ugly silence is the worst..  If that is all you are hearing, it is a lonely existance...

 A heart and soul are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others...
~Isis~
(Goddess - Sovereign of the Spirit)


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