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Silence
Hear the sound of silence,
The sound of our world's pain.
Resonating through the air
Tell me: Who's to blame?
Not the vices nor their puppets,
Spreading the human hate.
But the virtues and their guardians,
Who turn their heads and wait
For someone else to speak against
The wrong that stains the good.
Protagonists who say nothing;
Bad as criminals who do.
Explain to me, complacency
Hollow eyes watching here.
Defend for me, cowardly
Becoming mute when faced with fear
Violence, dreading,
Screaming! Hope to Doubt
All cancerously ebbing,
Yet no tongue lashes out.
To ignore is to accept,
To allow is to promote.
Silence burns me in my ears,
Words stagnant in your throat.
We are the sound of silence,
Reflecting our world's pain.
Find a voice and hear me,
Now is the time to end this game.
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This truly is amazing! Unlike a lot of free verse poems, this one has excellent capitalization and punctuation. Bonus marks! And the topic is a common one, but I can feel your anger through these wonderful, powerful words. Excellent work!
Oh, I've added this to my favourites.
Thank you, it's very appreciated <3
And I totally agree on the forced rhyming -- it's my largest pet peeve
Love the message and the way you wrote it. Its right on the edge of 5 stars. The only problem is that the subject isnt quite my cup of tea. its great though but my own bias is stopping me. I'll say 5 stars.
Well thank you! :) It's much appreciated <3
I'm going through your stuff now, and I'm enjoying it :)
Thank you :) Much appreciated, really.
And I was thinking abouut everything our world is filled with, and how most acknowledge that it's wrong... but yet do you hardly ever see anyone do anything?
I don't like to analyze or explain my poems, because they are given meaning by the reader and what they bring to the table. What their views and experiences are.
So it's about whatever you'd like it to be, but that's what I was thinking originally, and then I just wrote. No thoughts, just emotion through the pencil.
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