Adrift,
focused deep within,
her mother’s aging mind
falters,
vaguely senses
movement in its mist,
her daughter’s nameless face.
Whispers
in its silence,
a subtle, primal thought ,
familiar stranger’s voice,
but her mind cannot hold it.
Restive, recognition flickers, now
fades,
evaporates
even as it’s understood.
Precious past cast off,
her mind wanders,
the present and the presence lost,
her mind daily dwindles,
forever lost,
adrift.
Jon M. Forceton is a writer of poetry and speculative fiction. His work can be found in Every Day Poets, The Shine Journal, The Victorian Violet Press, Bewildering Stories, Everyday Weirdness, MicroHorror.com, and Abandoned Towers Magazine.
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6 Responses to “WHISPERS IN ITS SILENCE • by Jon M. Forceton”
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July 16th, 2011 at 9:00 am
She may be concentrating on something else. The whispered silence behind all the world’s noises might be “the music of the spheres,” an ancient concept (Ancient Greece and others) that the heavenly bodies (stars and planets) create, in geometrical measures, a silent musical hymn to creation in which we, in some measure, partake.
July 17th, 2011 at 4:01 am
Adrift, indeed. Sad but true.
“her daughter’s nameless face”
“familiar stranger’s voice”
It says it all.
July 17th, 2011 at 5:16 am
A very adept and touching take on a sadly all too familiar situation. You caught it beautifully, Jon.
July 17th, 2011 at 6:29 am
Roberta – I agree she may be listening to that silence but sadly she doesn’t know it. I also think the silence of that particular sphere, and by the way, I’m thinking it can never be total, is really a quantum mechanical manifestation that in the years ahead we’ll talk about by another name.
Irena and Sandra – Thanks for your generous comments. The silence was deafening.
July 17th, 2011 at 8:27 am
[...] free verse poem, Whispers In Its Silence, is scheduled for publication on Every Day Poets July 16, [...]
July 23rd, 2011 at 3:39 pm
“Precious past cast off,”
I just love this line. It speaks volumes.