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Sit, Stand, Silence

June 5, 2023
By asha_Reardon SILVER, Bainbridge Island, Washington
asha_Reardon SILVER, Bainbridge Island, Washington
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 Sit, Stand, Silence

me stranded here

I don’t know where I am or where I'm from

You took me away

but I still fell into the silence you disliked

Your little “friends” 

run around you screaming things from the wrecked relationships 

you left behind

how could you stay after what you try to convince  me of 

You create a draft no one dares to capture

So the shock my face held when you gave me the finger

then continued to badmouth me

I stood there in shock at what you had become

while I fell to my knees

You continued laughing

I tried to stand 

You pushed me back down

You are not innocent

You don’t get to 

take me 

down with you.


The author's comments:

I wrote this sitting in a cemetery about someone in my family but with all of my poetry, I write in a way so that readers can interpret it in their own way.


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