Poetry Train


Silence

Silence

A living cancer

Eating life

Destroying love


I walk through rooms

Filled with ghosts

Of love failed

And lives gone


My heart used to sing

To the words racing on the wind.

My blood used to race

To the melody of the leaves.


Now there’s only…


Silence

A living cancer

Eating life

Destroying love


No songs

My music gone

Empty is my world

Of the joy I once knew.


T.A. Chase (c) 2007

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9 Responses “Poetry Train”

  1. Jill says:

    I couldn’t imagine a world without music
    A world of pure silence
    Will be a world without color!
    Even if it is sad, I really like it, TA!

  2. gautami tripathy says:

    Sadder poems depict part of us. I too write sad poems most of the time.

    On the contrary, my life is pretty smooth!

    LOL!

    Get well soon.

    scientifically insane

  3. T.A.Chase says:

    Thanks, everyone.

    I wish I could do happier poems, but so far I seem to be better at sad ones. Maybe I’ll try writing a happy one to see how it turns out.

  4. R.G. ALEXANDER says:

    I love coming to your blog TA. I’m always in awe of your talent-and often inspired.
    Sad poem-beautifully done.

  5. Tempest Knight says:

    Very hauntingly beautiful, TA.

  6. Gina, Book Dragon says:

    First, wow to the picture. Then, awed silence to your poem.

    No songs

    My music gone

    Empty is my world

    Of the joy I once knew.

    (& why won’t it let me center??) That’s beautiful.

  7. bradleymel says:

    This is a powerful poem and an excellent way to begin a novel. Sometimes silence is beautiful and sometimes it’s the most horrible noise there is. What a spectacular way to begin your story.

  8. T.A.Chase says:

    I know it’s sad, Susan. There’s a point to the sadness. It’s the first poem/song in His Heart’s Home, the next book in the Home series. It’s the place where Derek is at the beginning of the book.

    Silence can be beautiful and so empty, just as you said.

  9. Susan Helene Gottfried says:

    Aww, TA, this is really sad and empty. Beautiful, of course, but … I dunno. At times, there’s a beauty in silence. And at times… I have to go looking for the beauty before these truths you’ve described eat me alive…

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