The Silence read by Robert M

The poem "The Silence" by poetess Stellina describes the despair and sorrow experienced by soldiers in war. It speaks of the silence amidst the chaos and death, the longing for love and home, and the questioning of why they must face such destruction instead of experiencing comfort and tending to humanity's needs. This is my recital of The Silence, a poem by the poetess Stellina. A silence lives there which hangs in the air, a cloak of despair made for each soldier to wear. A soul wins sighs and spoken words in weary eyes, and wasted youth dies for long-forgotten lies. They stagnate in cloying mud, ingrained with veins of brotherly blood. This silence amidst the shells and frenzied yells, tolling death knells and private hells, dwells far away from the battles of frays, and memories of halcyon summer days, where lovers' lips sweet words impart, and home fires burn inside the heart. Carnage all around, they hear no sound, as heartbeats pound and bodies bound, in chains of fear on hell's frontier, death lurking near haunting fields so drear. The night turns bleak and bitter with cold, they stand resolute, so staunch and bold. Yet deep inside they weep in lamentation, islands in a sea of desolation, observing in disbelief the annihilation of the Almighty's consummate creation, and ask themselves one question, why? Why is this the place we have to die, not comforted in a beloved's embrace before our Maker we must face, to answer for proxies' sinful deeds instead of tending to humanity's needs?