--- title: Silent Words date: 2008-09-19T03:25:49Z modified: 2008-09-19T03:25:49Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/silent-words/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 455 categories: - Friendship Poems - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2008-09-19T03:25:49Z tags: - Friendship Poems - Life Poems --- Wait, it’s never too late for years, i have been sitting on the fence contemplating whether to go this way or go the other way; unable to decide and unable to comprehend what i saw and what i witnessed; i stayed glued to this fence occasionally walking to the edge only to scamper back to the middle again and again; never quite really understood these colourful [emotions](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/prisoner-emotions.md) and what they were trying to tell me or do to me; the cautious person that [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/taxonomy/category/life.md) forced me to be i was sceptical of life itself; when the fence that was my home just gave away under the onslaught of an external force that i [carefully](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/care.md) protected me against; the time to decide and the time to take action was thrust upon me in one single night; throwing caution to the wind, tired of living an existence for the sake of living, i jumped out of the fence; i jumped out of the fence into the very emotions that i failed to understand and kicked out of my life; seasons change and as the once silent heart whispered its way back into my life the words that were silent, came back alive; just a couple of simple words i promised myself i would not cry, another day comes and goes, as i reach out to this thing called life i fill my heart with [love](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/love-is-never-silent.md) ready(waiting) to share it with you; – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – One of the hardest things in [life](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/theres-a-lot-in-life.md) is having words in your heart that you can’t utter. – James Earl Jones In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the [silence](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/breaking-the-silence.md) of our friends. – Martin Luther King, Jr. Words are the voice of the [heart](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/for-the-woman-who-stole-my-heart.md) – Confucius Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. – Maya Angelou