The Silent Shadows

Inspired by the film Listen to Your Heart.

What if I could not hear?

What if I could not see?

What if I could not speak?

Would beauty be the same to me?

I take life for granted,

In spite of all the miracles;

Selfish and lackluster,

In spite of being lyrical.

What if I could not hear?

What if I could not see?

What if I could not speak?

Would love be the same to me?

I’ve walked roads of faith and doubt;

Missing the point, as much as ever.

Treating love, like a selfish gain,

Causing its truth to sever.

What if I could not hear?

What if I could not see?

What if I could not speak?

Would sorrow be the same to me?

In the silent shadows, I sit,

Longing for a better life than the one that exists –

Something with this picture doesn’t quite fit.

How much havoc do I have to list?

If I could not hear, beauty would be the feeling of sound.

If I could not hear, love would be captured with a smile.

If I could not hear, sorrow, would still be sorrow.

If I could not see, beauty would be the feeling of a breeze or the warmth of a hug.

If I could not see, love would be blind to all that is tainting.

If I could not see, sorrow, would still be sorrow.

If I could not speak, beauty would be that feeling we get when someone treats us well.

If I could not speak, love would be an action; not a string of words.

If I could not speak, sorrow, would still be sorrow.

Since I can hear, since I can see; since I can speak,

Couldn’t beauty and love be all of those things to me?

I take life for granted, as we all do,

That’s why sorrow will always be sorrow –

No matter what we’re going through.

Yet, beauty and love could always change tomorrow.