The pain of silence

Wonderfully written. Sometimes our greatest enemy lives with in our own skin.

Judging comment:

"“emotions caged
in an air tight bottle
boiling to be released”

I thought ‘caged’ was an interesting verb choice here and created an extremely flexible image. Bottles, so commonly glass or plastic, but here we are presented with the image of bars, steel - which paints in mind a quite fascinating image of a bottle, perhaps enveloped in wire, or embraced by steel, a cork atop to keep the air inside of its glass encasement. Perhaps I just played with this image too much in my own mind, but this stanza presented just such a nice opportunity to do so.

The next stanza we are entrenched in dark - hiding, shadow. We are being pulled into the sadness, the poet’s emotional spectrum, next punched with the fact that some words can destroy fragility, beauty.

The closing lines were certainly interesting as well; a tear is very much visual, a well-known image, but rather than imagery, we are struck with sound-

“to free them
into your ears”.
A captivating ending to a sad, yet wonderfully written piece."

...thank you all :)

Congratulations meena well deserved

Craig

Meena, congratulations on your win! Well done!