# Poem #70: Silence

Author: bhscorch1313
Tags: Death, Love, Poetry, life

#71 of Poetry

This poem is about hoping that the person you love doesn't die.

_Silence_

I listen to the pounding in his chest.  
I press my ear up against his rib cage  
And sigh to myself as the rhythmic beating  
Makes my own heart race faster.

I memorize the beat  
So that is beats inside my head  
Every night before I go to bed.

It wakes me up every morning  
And tells me to prepare for the day.

The day I hope to never see  
Is the day I press my ear  
Up to his chest  
And hear silence.

So I wake up each day  
With a smile on my face  
For him, though I suppose  
It is for me as well.

~bhscorch

 

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