Notes On Silence And Loneliness Poem by Matthew Holloway

There is a silence
Haunting forever haunting
Leaving thoughts echoing
In lonesome nights
Where words remain hidden
Refusing to be written
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There is a silence in empty pages
Between thoughts and words
In rooms both empty and full
In the mornings first light
And the afternoons dull middle
Such silence is haunting
Ever present even in its absence
Knowing it waits to be remembered
And never truly leaves
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Loneliness is a potent threat
To the hearts and souls of man
To the lives of all it touches
To the waters and the flowers
And the songs echoing outward
Loneliness is a silence