Silent Suffering Poem by James Casey

Silent Suffering

Days filled with uncertainty of what tomorrow brings
A sacred trust that somehow brings us lesser things
Two people living as one, but as far apart as strangers.
A feeling deep inside of despair, hopelessness and dangers

Time passes every day, that make up all those years.
Precious time that's lonely, filled with silence and tears
Each of us longs for the other to be more than what we are
Always together in the same room silently fighting from afar

To finally reach that point where we can stand on common ground
Forced, by two foot of snow, to see each while being housebound
No matter how much time goes by we can only be who we are
Two people that try so hard to please, living in this silent war

Yet never quite fulfilling the other a blanket of complacency covers us
Slowly taking away our breath.another thing in this realm of emptiness
The desire to find what was never there leaves each of us dying inside
Separation, we know, is the answer, but then where else could we hide

Jim 1981