The Metaphone of Pain
He said it was a megaphone
It was emphasized in the movie
(in the play, first)
Then he found love with someone
Who was dying
And I don’t think he wanted to hear
The noise at all, let alone amplified
For there is a quietness to pain
Small cries that stay mostly in
I don’t mean the whimper
Though that’s fine
I mean the part that wants to cry out
THIS HURTS
Afraid to meet an indifferent world decrying
There are problems all over,
Fella
Sista
Get up and get on with it
But this is why
A Grief Observed is better than
The Problem of Pain
It got through
We listen
As we feel
And pay attention
Not to noise
But to a quieter insistence
C L Couch
Shadowlands, a play by William Nicholson
Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12490512
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