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Unsaid

by Williamwords 

Posted: 12 July 2005
Word Count: 73
Summary: Recently lost my voice through stress and penned this as a reaction
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This silent open mouth
yawns with impotence,
a pauper's voice amongst
the affluence of those who
can talk and walk from this place.
Words once trivial
or casually thrown aside
I now mine like coal.
A simple yes or no would be
a symphony to this soul.
The silence traps me
behind its dreadful wall
as this sentence, unlooked for
pricks at my eyes and love,
love can only hang between us
unsaid.






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joanie at 17:36 on 12 July 2005  Report this post
Williamwords, this is very well-conveyed. It must be awful losing your voice, but what a fantastic medium poetry is! I can actually hear a voice saying this as I read, so all is not lost!!
I particularly like
Words once trivial
or casually thrown aside
I now mine like coal.

An excellent metaphor - mining words. We take for granted the ability to voice our thoughts. Working as hard as a miner to extricate the words is thought-provoking.
I enjoyed this.

joanie

(typo: - its dreadful wall
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