What Sound Does a Heart Make
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What sound does a heart make
Before it’s about to break?
Before it’s torn in two
Let me ask you
What sound does it make?
Is it the sound of a sigh
That searches for a “why?”
Is it the sound of a brittle laugh
When a heart is torn in half?
Is it the mad sound of a scream?
The requiem to end a dream?
Is it the sound of a sad song?
Soulful, when all’s gone wrong?
Is it the sound of a rhyme?
That floats like a mournful chime?
What sound does a heart make?
What it’s about to break?
Perhaps it is the silence…
As a tear slides down the face
When there's no more saving grace
The silence of love gone cold
That was blazing bright, bold
It is the sound of silence
For the deepest pain is mute
When love has played the brute
When love has torn in two
When there’s nothing left to do
There is…..the silence.
Eileen Manassian
Copyright © Eileen Manassian | Year Posted 2015
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