The Silent Couple
Posted by Will Ooi | Posted in Writing | Tags: Poems | Posted on 02-11-2009-05-2008
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It petrifies me to think that we’ll end up like that, someday
Where all the things that needed to be said, have all been said away
With only our presence together to confirm for us our youth
All withered away, a love too long now in the tooth
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I’ve seen them many times, scattered around this world as witnessed through these eyes
Couples who have since merged their freedoms into the one single, common life
It’s often made me wonder whether this step is an inevitable conclusion
To the days of long ago of an inescapable flirtatious delusion
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I know though through my entire essence that that is not how we will be
Nor will the laughter and joy we sound out turn into a silent meaninglessness easily
And so all those couples’ faces – blank but with an alleged love for which I have disputed
Will remind me to announce loudly and constantly that “My love for you will never be muted”
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Copyrighted Image, Pam O’Connell: The Silent Couple
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You will end up having silent times. It’s not that all that could be said has been, it’s more that all the stories of your past have been told, and you only have the present to comment on. There is only so much present that can be discussed, so you end up sitting in silence, happy with each other in silence.
It’s only bad if it happens in week 3. Rather than year 3.
that’s beautiful, and maybe a bit of a warning to me; i’d better keep the chatter going with Megan!lol what i love about the painting is the subjects’ posture, slightly declined from one another. communication isn’t simply talking, as i’ve found again and again. in fact, i think talking is the smallest part of most face-to-face communication, so its the denial of that ‘face-to-face’ in the painting that really strikes me as sad…