Author Information
Silence
She told him in the beginning
How that love was sacred to her.
That she would not give her heart lightly,
But he never commented. There was only silence.
She took the silence as acquiescence.
It was really cold disinterest,
But she was inexperienced and in love.
He used many passionate promises
To acquire her hymen’s trophy.
Undying love to her and nobody ever cared for me before.
She accepted words as gospel truth.
That were really spawned of lust,
But in her ethical loyalty she couldn’t doubt.
She married him for purest love
And expected he had done the same.
Was willing to give up every dream and future’s promise
As silence built a wall brick by brick and stone by stone.
He was a cold one and offered nothing of himself
But she assumed he found it painful to share.
She reached for him in the darkness
To connect with warmth, to ease the craving.
But he always turned away and gave her silence.
She judged the silence as symptomatic of his childhood,
When it was really the cruelest of rebuffs.
But her innocent heart could not accept it.
Years watched her aching need for more swell like a balloon
But she kept that terrible silence for the children’s sake,
Letting the bruise inside become so sore
She could hardly bear the pain alone at night.
She thought to talk in over with her life’s mate many times
But met only cold silence.
He left her flat one Christmas with the presents still unwrapped,
And tinsel shining a hollow reflection of his cold heart.
She wracked her brain to uncover the hidden flaw
That prompted such a devastating abandonment,
But found only a silence she was beginning to welcome in her need.
She grew in time to understand that promises
Are no better than the one who makes them,
And they are never written in stone--only good intentions.
And as she healed she discovered her own self
And found a new friend in the woman she had become
As she lived in her empty home, children grown, surrounded by silence.
He called her last week “just to check on her,
To make sure that she was "all right", for "old times sake”
How about having a “family Christmas” this year
With everyone getting together in love?
His words met SILENCE.
