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Poem: Privacy of Silence
07 May 2014 at 12:47hrs | Views
In the silence of my poor heart
A flash of emotion is all I get
I forget how I aught to live
And let my slant be towards love
In a space void of sensation
My mind creates an oasis of feeling
That which gives each day meaning
And each heartbeat a treasure to cherish
I am, besides my despondent self, alone
In a world where many a face can be friend
And trusting man is a matter of piety
Man has one profitable talent
To be a nuisance and pretend it makes sense
It is the ultimate calling that any can get.
In the silence of my heart
In times like these, dejection is what I feel
And my tattered books my only hope.
My days I have spent on faith
A journey that is to those who walk it, hard
All my hopes fly back into mine hands
To send me back to the day I started.
If I was a pessimist, for more gloom I would hope
But because I believe in the light before my eyes;
Today will not repeat itself I do not suffer from loneliness
For thence I suck my personality
It is a vestige of my identity
That which if lost takes me with it
Solitariness is a shell of steel
The only contaminant lives inside me.
Source - Carlo-Marcel Dube
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