Forgotten Voice Poem by Hazel Durham

Forgotten Voice

Rating: 5.0


She is on a collision course with destiny,
Of somber days with death dwelling,
In the growing abscess of closing door's,
With skies darkened and cloudy,
Swirling into a ghostly shroud,
Like losing her way in a cruel, tongue invested crowd,
Pulling her down into a pit with screeching sounds,
Tearing her desires into strips of beaten and battered feelings,
Her life had once been easy,
With her lustrous, raven hair swept back on days so breezy,
This beauty of Dublin had been the sunlight of an everyday treat,
But drink had overtaken and awakened,
Her to numbed emotions leaving her with her alcohol devotion,
Swimming in a shark invested ocean,
With gaping jaws of nashing teeth just her usual defeat,
Exposing her buried troubles crumbling into pieces of rubble,
She is unable to put them back together,
As her soul has grown tired and too old,
With a torrent of her broken world of wrong choices,
All she hears now is the sneer of ex-colleague's voices,
She is in life's back room,
No hungry lens wants to get near her and zoom,
She is a forgotten voice in the city's slick boom.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Valsa George 02 September 2013

Alcoholic addiction can deprive one of the innate dignity and elan! ! The plight of this one time cynosure of everyone's eye is stunningly brought out through striking images! ! A grave warning! !

0 0 Reply
Lyn Paul 02 September 2013

I do hope she can find the key to life.'s front room. I fabulous title and a superb write Hazel. Alcohol is far too easy to get, cheap and advertised more than anything else and I love a glass of read most nights because it is there. Mmm!

0 0 Reply
Dinesan Madathil 03 September 2013

They rejoice while drinking But repent not when sober and The tale continues.... A good write of warning by Hazel an all seeing bard of these times!

0 0 Reply
Geetha Jayakumar 04 September 2013

A Beautiful warning...Alcohol addictions is really pathetic conditions where all are suffering due to its worst side affects..Beautifully expressed. Loved reading it..

0 0 Reply
Ramesh Rai 05 September 2013

No hungry lens wants to get near her and zoom, She is a forgotten voice in the city's slick boom. a soulful write

0 0 Reply
Kumarmani Mahakul 16 December 2018

Dear madam, you have so astutely delineated this poem on the awareness of alcohol. Taking alacohol is a great addiction that an addicted person can't get out from it. easily. A great poem.

0 0 Reply
Maria Gonzalez 26 July 2015

This is reality.....well written.

0 0 Reply
Akhtar Jawad 25 July 2015

A wonderful poem..............................................10

0 0 Reply
Adheez Van Der Beanthz 04 December 2013

powerful and meaningful this is amazing poem very good work thanks for sharing

0 0 Reply
Amitava Sur 27 October 2013

Lovely poem, cautioning with the consequences.... very well written

0 0 Reply
READ THIS POEM IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Close
Error Success