#poetry
the echo of silence
some nights the silence echoes
louder than any clap of thunder
my heart aches for a voice
as my hand involuntarily reaches for another
only to touch a ghost
engulfed in the ocean of loneliness
i flail in its frigid waters
as it leaks from my eyes in great salty drops
that caress my lips in the mockery
of ironic imitation
some voices are smooth whiskey
some the raucous screech of crows
some hands are roughened some smooth
none of that matters if love is there
i lie wideeyed in the silence hoping
© 2021 RC deWinter
Anthologized in “Windmills in the Mind,” Lothlorien Poetry Journal @LothlorienJ, Volume 11, August 2022
#Art: The Clamor of Silence© 2012 RC deWinter
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