(to one of the victims of our silence, l.b.)
i'm not sure who
insisted silence was gold
but i'm pretty sure
he was wrong.
there's too much to
SAY
and stories to live
and so silence has
been a thief for
US
took those words
"i love you"
and contorted them
into fear
and nothing
and looked a lot
more black than sheen
but we are finding
-she and i-
that listening is
silver
and worth its weight
in gold
i'm not sure who
insisted silence was gold
but i'm pretty sure
he was wrong.
there's too much to
SAY
and stories to live
and so silence has
been a thief for
US
took those words
"i love you"
and contorted them
into fear
and nothing
and looked a lot
more black than sheen
but we are finding
-she and i-
that listening is
silver
and worth its weight
in gold
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20 comments:
nice. like the play on words in the close....there is much to say but i imagine we would be a whole lot wiser to listen twice as much as we open our mouths...
Reminded me of Ecclesiastes--a time to be silent and a time to speak.
"silence has been a thief for US took those words "i love you" and contorted them into fear" This part gets me. How fear keeps us from expressing our hearts. Thoughtful. Thanks, Misty.
mmm, this is so good. thankful you both are finding your voices, silver in the story-sharing.
i love that you are challenging an old idea on the worth of silence..
i am right beside you
elevating the act of
listening.
the transformation that is born in willingness...
the way love
becomes a perfect verb.
"silence has been a thief for us"
This poem is beautifully wrought. Yes. There are times when silence is evil. I'm glad that more healing is coming, through listening, and love.
i love that listening is silver.
Kath
This is absolutly beautiful. I love it!
"Listening is silver and worth it's weight in gold"
This is truth, sister!
thought-provoking stuff ... so hard sometimes to let Silence have its place; so hard sometimes to speak up, speak out.
I like this very much, especially those last lines about silver and gold. Nicely done, Misty.
it's all pride, isn't it? what makes us speak when we shouldn't and not listen when we should. this is great... let's redeem what we thought was lost!
Misty this is beautiful...listening is silver and silence is not golden...it is a theif...thank you for sharing these truthful and lovely words.
:-)
I get it.
I like this a lot - for sure, silence is not always golden... loved the ending
gorgeous. we listen in order to speak, and it's a conundrum, and we're learning this together. as usual, you silence my soul with your poetry, friend, but you also make me yearn to write... thank you. xo
I keep coming back and reading this - thinking of times people needed to speak up and didn't and times when people needed to listen so they would know how to speak (myself included). Thanks for stirring my heart.
Simon & Garfunkel made a poignant song about the sounds of silence. SILENCE LIKE A CANCER GROWS. Another song, "i am a rock," IF I NEVER LOVED, I NEVER WOULD HAVE CRIED.". Oh, let my tears of joy pour forth and never let the walls -the prison - of silence be raised again.
This is really good! One of my favorite verses in Proverbs 31 is that she has the law of kindness on her tongue. :-) We are not to be silent but to speak and listen with love. :-)
there is a lot here I think.
there is a beauty here... but there is also a haunting.
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