82. Can You Hear Me? [100 poems challenge]

82.          Can You Hear Me?

The ache inside is shouting,
My need
So overwhelming
It is surely lit in neon;
The hurt
So loud,
Reverberating,
A stroboscopic klaxon
That echoes in my soul.

Yet proud, defiant,
Self-contained
I wear my smile,
Never say a word,
And wonder why
Nobody hears.

16 July 2013

Comments: I really admire those people who can hear beyond our silent brave facades. I am also fortunate in that I am only rarely deafened by my own needs, but I will confess to not being good at letting on. If anyone is worried, I don’t think I have any particularly loud internal agonies at the moment, apart from an urgent need for an idea for a poem about “Food”!

Themes to come: 83. Heal; 84. Out Cold; 85. Spiral; 86. Seeing Red; 87. Food

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.