Can Anyone Hear Me?
The Power to be Heard
As I write my silent plea,
As I sit here, begging,
Can anyone hear me?
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I need someone desperately
To let me know someone is seeing
As I write my silent plea.
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Tell me, do you see
The person I am portraying?
Can anyone hear me
*
As my opinions flee
Out of my pen; my thoughts are racing
As I write my silent plea.
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I need somewhere that I can be
Myself as I am writing—
Can anyone hear me?
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The power to be heard could set me free,
Just to know that I am existing
As I write my silent plea—
Can anyone hear me?
About the Creator
Stephanie Hoogstad
With a BA in English and MSc in Creative Writing, writing is my life. I have edited and ghost written for years with some published stories and poems of my own.
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Final Call
She flings her arms around my neck and squeezes me like she’s never going to let me go. My head spins as her lips brush against my cheek. She must be able to feel my heart thumping in my chest. I shuffle backwards and ram my hands into my coat pockets, watching her reach down and heave the rucksack across her shoulders.
By Caroline Craven7 days ago in Fiction
Comments (8)
🤔🤔🤔🤔 touching
There's a beauty in the way you've crafted these lines, expressing a universal sentiment that many might feel but struggle to put into words
I think it's fundamental to so many if us, isn't it, to be witnessed.
This broke my heart so much! It was so poignant and emotional! Loved your Villanelle!
Yes... I heard you very clearly... in a villanelle, no less! Very effective!
wonderful I really liked the last stanza and the use of the word plea.
Oh Stephanie felt this so much 🤍 Beautiful and so poignantly human 🤍
I hear you! Nice villanelle! The constant question really makes the reader want to answer.