David Graham

The darkness:

Silence, that’s all I can hear,

I dream of a voice,

a beautiful tender voice,

speaking beautiful words

that ends my pain,

but silence, only silence.

It’s raining silence,

it’s pouring silence,

it’s thundering silence.

The silence is endless,

the silence is deafening,

I can’t escape it. So I

stop trying. Silence it is,

silence it will be. Silence,

forever with me.

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The light:

I hear you. Hold on.

Help me find you.

Help me save you.

Who are you?

I am you and you are me.

I don’t believe you.

You must believe me.

Trust me and

you will see.

I swear together

we can beat

the silence and be free,

just say after me,

I am who I am

and I will be me,

and after this day

I will be soaring

like a bird

because after this day

I will speak

and so shall be heard.

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Thanks to all for reading, I truly hope you enjoyed it. This poem was inspired by my time at school being bullied, and how bullying forces you into silence. If anybody is going through such a situation, I’m with you on the best thing you can do is to break that silence and seek help, you deserve it!