Break The Long Pause In Silence Poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen

There is a pause in everything
a pause from playing
a pause from dancing
a pause from eating
and a pause from writing.

I have lived in silence
for some days, weeks
and months, having the
pause from writing letters
and words, sentences and
images, stories and poems.

The pause in silence
should not be much longer
My heart beats again
to go back to letters and
words, to images, thoughts
and feelings to tell stories
and write poems.

Now I am back to life.
From silence and from a long
pause in silence, I want
to celebrate life again
by going back to writing.

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November 23,2018