Poetry: I never knew

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by Kelly Stoll

Created on: May 06, 2011

I never knew silence could be deafening and defining
That love harbors no cost.

I never knew the steel ringing shredding of a broken heart
While life thrives forward.

I never knew the ill are forgotten and ignored
While suffering has no reason.

I never knew the darkness of depression
Nor the normalcy of Schizophrenia.

I never knew that life breathed in my soul
Until I lost life of my own.

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If I had known it was the last time,

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You hid it well, I never knew

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I never knew the steel ringing shredding of
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I never knew what it would feel like

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