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Sounds Of Silence

by Joan Serratelli



Why can’t I

shake this feeling?

Impending doom

I can’t explain it well

Everybody

feels that way

at one time

or another

But I feel

like a broken transmission

I cannot switch gears

I’m stuck

and I can’t

go anywhere

So I just

sit here

unable

to move

I sit here

it’s quiet

If you listen

real hard

You can hear it

It’s the sound

of the rest of my life

calling me













09/15/2012

Posted on 09/15/2012
Copyright © 2026 Joan Serratelli

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 09/16/12 at 01:57 AM

Nicely done.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 09/16/12 at 03:00 PM

Very well put. A highly spiritual piece that I'm sure we all can relate to in our own way. I sure can.

Posted by Joe Cramer on 09/18/12 at 10:32 AM

... excellent.....

Posted by Ken Harnisch on 09/21/12 at 02:23 PM

Simple, elegant and searing..one of your best Joan! "But I feel/like a broken transmission/ I cannot switch gears/ I’m stuck and I can’t go anywhere" i was there. It is exactaly as you wrote.

Posted by Chris Sorrenti on 09/22/12 at 04:34 AM

Congratulations on hitting Number 1, Joan. Well deserved!! :)

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