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THESILENCE SAID


My apologies... my poetry tends to be Seuss-like in nature.


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So she sits there at school, in the back of the room
Contemplating futures of nothing but gloom

Surrounded by kids who are laughing with mirth
And she's part of the happiest people on earth?

They must be all evil, the demons hold sway
This can be explained in no other way

And yet something just doesn't feel right in her chest
Just a feeling she gets when her guard is at rest

Her father has told her, all these people will die
In her heart she wonders why, dear god, why

She knows her classmates have done petty deeds
Lied about homework, taunted and teased

But death just seems such a harsh price to pay
For children just learning to find their own way

But this is god's will and support it she must
Or she will become, with them all, nothing but dust

So she stifles her thoughts and turns to her prayer
A hollow act with no spiritual feeling there

She bends her thoughts and her will, as wrong as it feels
All the while silently dragging her heels

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Just a clever, quiet, unusual entity living in near equanimity.

THESILENCE SAID

She sits at the meetings, and knows it's her fate
For herself she feels nothing but loathing and hate

For she knows that she simply cannot comply
To submitting her will to some random guy

So marry she must, or submit to them all
And yet no one interests her there at the hall

She wants to share thinking, ideas, and thoughts
But for acceptable mates, these are all nots

She feels trapped and lost, no option looks good
Just one glimmer of hope and she'd take it, she would

But knowledge is stifled, marriage looks grim
School or career, the chances are slim

Isolated childhood, no future that's bright
How come the truth just feels so not right?

TEC SAID

Oh, those are good, Silence. They paint a very clear picture of how you felt.

Bending your thoughts and your will... that stood out the strongest to me.

Peace,
tammy

AGUEST SAID

Dr. Seuss not by a longshot, dear TS (peace to you!). I "felt" this young girl's angst... and fear for her future. Sigh - so MANY lives ruined, so many opportunities to LIVE denied. Please do me a favor and consider that the reason it didn't feel "right" or like the "truth" is because it wasn't... and that that wasn't God's fault... or doing? It never could have been, what's written in the OT withstanding. It couldn't have been... because you can't see Christ in any of that. And without him, there can be no truth in a such a place.

Thank you and, again, peace to you!

Your servant and a slave of Christ,

SA

VELVET SAID

Oh Jackie, you expressed it perfectly. I would bet there are 1000's of us who felt the same way but didn't know how to express it verbally. Most of us kept it inside suffering. Its wonderful to be able to be creative and therupeutic at the same time.
Thanks for sharing

AGUEST SAID

Someone (dear Jackie? Peace to you, dear one!) ought to a "Musing of Former Jehovah's Witnesses" poetry book (under a different title, of course, so's active JWs... or their teens... can read it - LOLOL! Maybe THAT will get some of 'em out - LOLOL!

I'm telling ya, stuff to relate to, dear Jackie's poetry. Gonna make sure my kids see it!

Peace!

A slave of Christ,

SA

COCO SAID

Beautifully and poignantly expressed, TheSilence.

You're excellent at rhyme, though that's secondary to your message. Isn't it interesting how we say the same thing but in different manners? I feel as if I come from another century when I talk and write.

Must be my upbringing ...

With gratitude,

CoCo

SOFT/GENTLE SAID

thesilence
that was powerful

JUSTMOM SAID

Dearest Silence

WOW!!! I too can relate. Thank you so much for expressing how so so many of us have felt in the past. So true.

justmom

GLADIATOR SAID

All the poets are out tonight - must be the heat. Even gladiators write poems but that would be telling. We have some talent on this new forum. Very enjoyable to see folks freely expressing their feelings.

AGUEST SAID



SOOOooo... do TELL, dear Glad (peace to you!). Just what IS in the mind and heart of a gladiator?? Inquiring minds would like to know - LOL!

Peace!

SA, on her own...

NAMBO SAID

I joined when I was in my late 20s, to me the message was relayed as, and excepted as, God doing something wonderful to the Earth.

Of course most of my new friends were brought up in the truth, and of course they wouldn't have dared relate how the "truth" must appear to a young one, so I had no idea.

Thank you for your lovely poem and the insight into a young Witnesses heart that it reveals.

CLEARLIGHT SAID

A poem about me and my childhood. How nice! (Well...it could be.)

SOFT/GENTLE SAID

what transfixes me about the poem is the thought of a small child having to deal was such huge issues. Hugeness and smallness in stark contrast.
So her feet drag but she keeps going. She looks for a glimmer of hope although there is none. She prays despite there being nothing. there is nothing but herself and her musings about what she sees around her to bring her through - courage and fragility together.
my 2 cents

SILENCE SAID

Thanks, everyone.
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Just a clever, quiet, unusual entity living in near equanimity.