You are deaf <br />but you can hear me <br />with your lips that tell me just by their touch <br />what words you cannot hear <br />can say far better than I can hear me say. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can hear me <br />with your eyes that tell me with far clearer sight <br />what words you cannot hear <br />but say far better with your eyes that see through my soul. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can hear me <br />with just your touch that tells me with fingertips <br />that write far better words than I have heard <br />in all emotions expressed by voice <br />by those who speak and say nothing. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can hear me <br />through the silence of what we haven't said <br />those messages that speak so loudly: <br />love, hate, happiness, sad moments dragging into hours, days, and years those words that scream through flowing tears. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can hear me <br />through the ramming of my ever-speaking heart <br />that speaks in monosyllables far greater words than orators, <br />hearing, cite for sighted though unhearing ones <br />too deaf to hear what those like you can hear. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can see me, feel me, hold me close enough <br />to feel the beat, the heat that burns those words <br />you cannot hear but know unspoken, <br />what words I say that only you can hear, <br />cool night or heated day, through rain, or wind, or darling buds of May. <br /> <br />You are deaf <br />but you can feel the silent sounds that scream from me: <br /> <br />'Just listen to the beat and you will hear my every unsaid thought through eyes, my soundless lips, my arms' embrace that hold in yours whatever words we mean but have no need to say.'<br /><br />Lorenzo Costigliolo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-sounds-of-silence-words-on-deaf-ears/
