Our local newspaper is starting to publish poetry, so I decided to look at some of my poems to see if I had anything that I want to send in. I realized that I had a couple that I had not posted on my blog that relate to hearing loss, so I thought I would post them.
What Will Be The Music?
In the early morning
When the sun is rising high
I can't hear the birds sing
at that beautiful blue sky.
And when the leaves are falling softly
and settling on the ground
In the autumn of my life
I cannot hear the sound.
But my eyes take in the colors
and the beauty of the birds
And I search my mind for the memories
of everything I've heard.
For what will be the music
in the silence of my life?
Is it the soaring of the bird
in its beautiful soft flight?
Do The Birds Still Sing?
Do the birds still sing?
I cannot tell.
Do telephones ring?
I don't hear the bell.
Do children sing?
I know they yell.
The sound is fading
and I'm not old.
Why does it go?
Nobody knows.
In the silence
what will I find?
A flower blooms
in quiet time.
Find the flower
for me to see,
Blooming quietly.
God help me
I am so scared.
I'm afraid I'll forget
what I have heard.
In the silence will I know,
all the music I love so?
The voices of my caring friends,
will this all come to a silent end?
My journey from hearing loss to hearing with bilateral cochlear implants.
That made me cry Glenice.
ReplyDeleteOh love, I know how you feel but I am old and retired so it is easier for me, I have my memories.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard when I was going out to work and still hard trying to work out what people are saying, but as I said now I am old it doesnt matter so much.
For you young people I know life is so frustrating. you have a good brain, which is having to work harder than ever, but people do not, and cannot realise the constant stress, just trying to get by.
best wishes, I loved your poems.
Wow, they were both really good.
ReplyDeleteAre you submitting 2 of them to your local paper? I think you should!
Excellent and boy, can I relate!
Thanks for sharing those.
Thank you everyone for your encouraging comments.
ReplyDeleteI wrote those poems before I qualified for the cochlear implant. The good news is the cochlear implant brought those sounds back to me. It is wonderful that we live in a time when medicine has made discoveries that offer hope, some with miraculous results.
Glenice, I followed the advice on Mog's blog to read your blog today. It is hard to imagine the world that you described in your poems.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to see your follow up comment that you are able to hear again because of your cochlear implant. That is so wonderful.
All the same, I think of the people who still are deaf and for whom life is as your poems describe it. I feel so sad about the loss of connection that that must represent for them.
Hi Glenice,
ReplyDeleteRe: your poem on music. My tinnitus has been acting up lately so it's like I have an interior sound track running that only I can hear. Did you have tinnitus before your cochlear implant?
Sarah