Silent Love

While the world applauds you
And cheers your achievements
Drooling at everything you do,
I look for a shell,
A box, or anything
Where I could hide my love
And keep it out of sight…

And for some moments
I wish I never fell for you,
But what can I do,
If once you take
Your first step
In the road of love,
We find too late
That there’s no way back?

The world cheers,
But I quiet down…
I run away,
Wish I could stay…
And against this noise,
My silence screams for you…
A silent love
That I wish I’d never
Have shouted it out…

And I take the silence
And I turn it into my voice,
Wish I’d never loved you,
While the world rejoices…
Wish I never knew you
So I wouldn’t love like this
And now I try to silent it,
But I had forgotten
That love is a road
With no way back…

Clara Maria Cristina Borges de Medeiros
Itaboraí, January 12, 2012.