Silenced Heartbeats

Running to no avail-

look where it got you.

A handful of tearstains,

hundreds of heartbreaks.

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So empty, so lost and I can’t find

the way to comfort these thoughts from my mind.

Tired, aching, I feel I should be breaking

yet I stand frozen in time.

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These tears do not fall

seems they’ve forgotten how,

or maybe they just never learned.

Wish I had them now.

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So empty, so lost and I can’t find

the way to comfort anyone, myself included.

Praying, aching, to know what I feel

yet I stand frozen in time.

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The tears fall, but not my own.

Surrounded but apart, and all alone.

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Author's Note: Our teacher died today 6/08/07. Second to last day of school, one day before his retirement. The day before he had told us he would'nt be like a former teacher he knew who had a heartattack the day school ended just before he was to retire. The next day we find out our teacher had died. of a heartattack. Two days before his retirement.