{"sf1_id":454657,"sf2_id":"3eg7w7je","title":"Poem #70: Silence","author":"bhscorch1313","words":124,"posted_at":"2012-10-24T22:43:00.000Z","tags":["Death","Love","Poetry","life"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/454657-poem-70-silence","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/3eg7w7je","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/7e/7e/7e7e3cfe-db52-46b3-9b4b-6b77e36c8caa","description":"#71 of Poetry\n\nThis poem is about hoping that the person you love doesn't die.","content":"_Silence_\n\nI listen to the pounding in his chest.  \nI press my ear up against his rib cage  \nAnd sigh to myself as the rhythmic beating  \nMakes my own heart race faster.\n\nI memorize the beat  \nSo that is beats inside my head  \nEvery night before I go to bed.\n\nIt wakes me up every morning  \nAnd tells me to prepare for the day.\n\nThe day I hope to never see  \nIs the day I press my ear  \nUp to his chest  \nAnd hear silence.\n\nSo I wake up each day  \nWith a smile on my face  \nFor him, though I suppose  \nIt is for me as well.\n\n~bhscorch\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n[![Creative Commons License](http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nd/3.0/88x31.png)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/)\n\n\"Silence\"\u0026nbsp;by bhscorch is licensed under a\u0026nbsp;[Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/3.0/).\n\n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Poetry","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/406416-poem-69-inside-of-a-box.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/477026-poem-71-a-snow-globe.json"}}