--- title: Silence Screams date: 2009-12-31T13:58:45Z modified: 2010-03-28T19:18:15Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/silence-screams/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 646 categories: - Life Poems featured_image: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1188945_64181700.jpg" author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2010-03-28T19:18:15Z tags: - Life Poems --- watching the kids play![](http://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/1188945_64181700-300x199.jpg "Silence") i stood there on a slow afternoon in a room full of emptiness; the memories and dreams broken and haunting me still as i speak to the atmosphere and i fall into myself; beauty is the what the eyes behold beneath this skin, no one can see [the darkness](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/the-darkness.md) or the fear; as I rush home through the night my mind fumbles around for some kind of truth to relieve me from this ordeal; standing here hidden from those prying eyes I’m absorbed in thought, pretending to be happy for one more day; here i am at the fork of my life’s road silently screaming angry and confused; as the echos of silent lights swirling and twinkling filled the eerie darkness of the night the struggle within gets harder everyday; praying for a better day to put this pain to a bitter rest I look up to the sky (and into my father’s eyes, watching me and gently smiling,) as i seek to achieve my freedom; as rough as the road may be, the reward I seek is greater than gold, for what I seek is me, what i seek is my life;