Too Long; Silence (a response to Mikhail's 'taste of silence' challenge)

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Too Long; Silence (a response to Mikhail's 'taste of silence' challenge)

Anvrill
Senior Member

since 2002-06-21

Posts 710
in the interzone now

0 posted 2002-07-26 03:27 PM

You can never forget
the taste of silence.
So dry and bitter
on your tongue.
All the times
when I screamed in my head,
begging for you to talk;
the rusty anxiety
burning in the back of my throat.

I tried to sweeten it
with music
and with dreams
that could never fulfill.
I tried to staunch it
with new words
and people to speak with.

Our silence
sits idly in my mouth,
I gag on it
and wish
that I could have made it
somehow different.

written in blood before everything went black

JCV

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

1 posted 2002-07-26 09:40 PM

*long hug* I love yr words, and wish you happier days ahead, babylove.

She said burn ... together.
-TON

StarrGazer
Senior Member

since 2000-03-05

Posts 679
Texas

2 posted 2002-07-27 07:54 PM

I really liked this !

brian sites
Senior Member

since 2002-06-25

Posts 1475
usa

3 posted 2002-07-27 11:55 PM

dry
bitter
rusty
burn

sweetened?

gag

awesome lori
BS.

I never aimed at reality; I aimed at truth. --Orson Welles

devina
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 3539
Cali

4 posted 2002-07-28 01:54 PM

ack! that silence? I'd have to scream it away OUTLOUD...

course I'm a vocal person with 'streme temper, so...

take care Lori-girl

Open arms can be the most fragile in the world...

wranx
Member Elite

since 2002-06-07

Posts 3689
Moved from a shack to a barn

5 posted 2002-07-29 01:04 PM

You gets mo'n mo betta all da time.

~wranx

The shortest distance between two points...
is sometimes, intolerable.

Bukowski

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

6 posted 2002-07-29 03:47 PM

that sort of silence is maddening--

ask a man what he is thinking about and he replies "nothing"? 99% of the time it's the truth. grinning...don't ask a woman that--SHE'LL TELL YOU.

Thanks for the bit of prose too, Ms. Lori--I am finding it a fascinating read!

Enjoy yer work.

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