Keeping Silent | Teen Ink

Keeping Silent

June 10, 2010
By ToryZoe GOLD, Norwalk, Connecticut
ToryZoe GOLD, Norwalk, Connecticut
11 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;who you are is what you have done;<br /> who you will be is what you do now&quot;<br /> said by buhhda


When I speak no one listens.
When I don’t all anyone can hear is my silence.
If people like me better silent…
Then maybe they’d like me best gone.

Slowly I forget my words.
Not like any one could care.
If I go long enough in silence to speak is painful.
Each word a knife in my throat.

I become an animal.
A mute.
Staring and smiling.
Gesturing with nods and shakes of my head.
“Is something wrong” I’m asked I shake my head no.
Not like anyone could care.
I become a pet.
A dog.
You can talk to never responding.
Never talking.
Just a dog.



Similar Articles

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 2 comments.


ToryZoe GOLD said...
on Dec. 3 2012 at 10:04 pm
ToryZoe GOLD, Norwalk, Connecticut
11 articles 0 photos 7 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;who you are is what you have done;<br /> who you will be is what you do now&quot;<br /> said by buhhda

I've tried but can't.

matias said...
on Jul. 17 2010 at 9:27 am
hey, im matias. i lost your emails. you may want to post them here, for a tic? i've got no other way to contact you at the moment.