Sweet Hermione




3rd poem

Ok, I thought this one might be in need of a bit of an explanation. After actually listening to the song and having read it twice, I thought it was time for me to analyze it... So that I did. To me, I realised, the lyrics to this song deal with being in a relationship that's on the edge of collapse.. Scared as you are, you are not willing to give it up, yet remaining silent all the time and not wanting to hurt the person by telling him what's wrong or what needs to change - not willing to break his heart, you slowly start to live a lie and break your own instead. Can't you see this boat is sinking? in my eyes refers to the relationship being on its breaking point. Let's go down to the waters edge and we can cast away these doubts ... let's go and talk about it, she's saying here. Yet: Some things are better left unsaid. And not saying anything about it is not gonna change anything... and in the end will mean the destruction of your relationship. You know it's time to put an end to it, because it's simply not working. But you can't. You can't tell him how you feel, why you act the way you do, because the truth hurts too frigging much. So yeah. On the account of this interpretation, I wrote the following poem. The flower is just an imagery, really, as I hope you'll soon come to realise. 

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Silent ways, silent winds, silent whispers 
A silent breeze that shakes the flower’s solid stem 
Shakes it, never breaks it 
Tickles petals, scared to damage them. 
Acid rays, acid rain, acid rivers 
The flower grows but never shall its soft pink petals bloom 
Frowning, as she’s drowning, 
Why she’s there, and what was it that caught her in this doom 
Luscious lies, luscious love, luscious liqueurs 
The mellow sound of silence gives a cry 
Kissing, the past reminiscing 

Crack. 

The stem did break and now in fields of gold does lie.


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