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"Solace in Silence"

I believe

in you,

you could save

the world

if you wanted.

I know

you hold fire

in your hands

to hide

the pain in your heart.

I feel

your stifled tears.

When you are

silent,

heaven weeps.

Inside you long

to lay the song

to rest.

Inside you long

to let the fires die

for one still moment.

So take my hands,

I will burn for you,

and when you fall silent,

you can cry your own tears.

Answer 1

This is written as if you have a secret scroll opened inside a pure heart.

Answer 2

Rhyming

Answer 3

I dont usually cry. Im 161, 5 ft 8 and bodybuilder. The point im trying to make is through years of training and related stuff, my heart has grown pretty much emotionless. But something in this poem knocks on the part that hasnt grown emotionless. Im glad I felt that. I havent in a while. Great poem.

"So take my hands,

I will burn for you,

and when you fall silent,

you can cry your own tears."

-GMF FH-

Answer 4

I did not like this poem.  I feel `lay the song/to rest' confuses the theme of silence with an inappropriate metaphor for suffering, while `you hold fire/in your hands' is a somewhat bumbling act of hyperbole, made worse by off-echoes to Atlas: `save the world,' rather than carry it, and `take my hands,' when it is you who is `taking' his fires.  Worse, the first stanza sounds so much more like consolation than sympathy, while the poem is indifferent to the distinction.  For a work with three of the four traditional elements (no air), the poem is unpleasantly indifferent to this tetrad.

I take all of the blame for these difficulties on my own aesthetic sense; apparently all other readers who have commented liked this poem a great deal.

Answer 5

I can't imagine any poetry being more exquisitely beautiful than this.  It made me cry.  Thank you.

Answer 6

The first thing I pay attention to in a poem is its structure and sound--poetry predates writing because it is meant to be easily remembered through its rhythm--and this beauty was structured to have a good rhythm. Like all good pop songs, simplicity has a better hook. I absolutely loved the line structure of this little piece (not to mention the emotional truism of which it speaks).

Answer 7

i find this as prayerful as one can get, along with a sound

of tender tough love.  Worded in beauty, Kudos.

Answer 8

clearly clairvoyant ... you managed to say something  beyond words with words. only genius and fey  can accomplish that..

Answer 9

your messages are phenomenal.

arresting.

liberating.

tasted.

and yes, new things in silence.

its difficult to say 'solace' with one,

knowing dam well

it would be what would be wanted..

its a moving poem Eva.

it is also strangely nourishing.

Answer 10

Cruel yet honest, these are both held within this poem... safe but so fragile and the concept of a silent world of thought bleeds through. I have been held within this silence of late, even when I am among friends I am locked in a quiet of my own making but not of my own choosing... I think you captured the thought well here... I have been through this the last few months and I am not sure if it is good or not... but it is true! Cruel yet honest... it is what most people need at times.