Silent Cries

Silent Cries

Spoken into silence
And emptiness again
The word echo off my wall
Into loneliness and shame

The stillness of my being
Awaken from my sleep
Finding darkness in my soul
Lonely tears I weep

Empty words of innocence
Of cruelty and of shame
Crying out into the night
Into loneliness again

Painful memories so deep
And emptiness I've known
I reach for understanding
Just to find that I'm left alone

Desperate cries in silence
Never letting go
Wounds so deep inside me
The pain I only know

Sadness has engulfed me
Bitter to the end
Pieces of my innocence
Shattered by a friend

Inside my innocence is lost
He took that from me
And in this world of brokenness
There's nothing left of me

This poem was written by Leilani Egan