Added Later: I thought maybe I should clarify... This, to me, was a positive write... a personal celebration of sorts and, more importantly, a thank you to those that have helped me move forward. It is, really, the title and the ending that bear the greatest significance - that is to say, my focus was on the present, not the past... the past was included really to put the write in context. And, for the record I guess... I was not the victim of child abuse, not physical abuse... that is not to say this piece has been completely misinterpreted, but in that sense I guess, it may have. Thanks ~SNM~

Lifted From The Page Contributed by Silent-No-More on Sunday, 7th November 2004 @ 03:44:05 PM in AEST Topic: selfstruggles Daddy first birthed the mute (she won’t call him that anymore) He took the words from her lips and he flung them to the floor “Yellow” was the first to go (but yellow, she never knew) She lost her red and orange and green, she broke when he threw blue Colors bled out of the rainbow (everything went black and white) She existed, colorless, in those days, hope sank into the night For little ones do what they’re told (and mirror their parents’ way) Though the thoughts danced about, not one would she dare say Silent, she had learned to live (if one could even call it that) In a quiet world all her own, word shadows at least would last Speaking not of rainbows true (on the page alone they’d stay) She found a way to make them real, she made them all in grey Others came and finally went (never close enough to know) Once or twice she shared a rainbow but stayed hopeless even so Then she whispered a rainbow dream (just loud enough to be heard) And someone told her that it seemed blue and gave her back a word And “Blue”, it seems, was just enough (to help her to begin) To lift the words up off the page and learn to speak again Added Later: I thought maybe I should clarify... This, to me, was a positive write... a personal celebration of sorts and, more importantly, a thank you to those that have helped me move forward. It is, really, the title and the ending that bear the greatest significance - that is to say, my focus was on the present, not the past... the past was included really to put the write in context. And, for the record I guess... I was not the victim of child abuse, not physical abuse... that is not to say this piece has been completely misinterpreted, but in that sense I guess, it may have. Thanks ~SNM~ Copyright © Silent-No-More ... [ 2004-11-07 15:44:05] (Date/Time posted on site) Advertisments: Previous Posted Poem         | |         Next Posted Poem