Only one hears a silenced voice ...

"To the ones who feel everything"

Only one hears a silenced voice ...

                                                                      written by: harlon rivers ©


An indifferent ache swirls in the silence

throbbing like a dancing candle flame

No one understands the heart of silence

moving the darkness with its ancient dance


Its voice is only felt but never heard

the way it whispers the reality it bears

Disrobing the nakedness of a fragile heart

exposing inherent truth deep in disguise ;

retouching the chaos passing of love laid bare


Unspoken emotions that nobody hears

float around a muted tongue numb with fear

Searching for a labyrinth to understanding say

trying to feel the unfelt warmth of love in an endless cold ;

waiting on a frozen emptiness that never thaws 


No one understands the haunting fear,

... surly it couldn't happen again --- and surly it will,

a heart stifled silent --- silence doth peal loudly

                        poignant dreaded words: 

                           "It's not you it's me ,.......

              "I love you but I'm not in love with you"


and like winter dreaming for the sun to reappear

to come back again and dry the memory of fallen tears

A hushed heart falls off the earth lost in ether shadows,

mooning in the lonely silence without a moonlit shine


When you pull love too close --- it will push you away

some silence heals --- a dissonant silence cuts to the bone

                  Only the lonely feel a silent voice sigh

                   Only one hears a silenced heart die

Such a Simple Thing - Ray LaMontagne

author's note: 

3/19/2018 ... 7 am without edit---tho as reluctant as a waking sigh breathed ~ swallowed too many times before, what's lost is gone forever,.. what's found is yours to keep