Don't Say Anything Comments

WoW! ! ! ! Thank you, Anjandev, for reading and commenting so sweetly! ! !

Brilliant piece throughout.......thank u........anjandev roy.

Soran! ! ! ! I tried to post this in the reply box but nothing happened... so I post it here.: What beautiful things you say here! ! ! This helps me face a blank piece of paper and try to write another poem! Thank you for reading my poetry and making my day! ! !

Dear Madam Hello, this is Very powerful poem with brilliant topic and theme, very big issue has been addressed here by a professional poet; the atmosphere in this poem is the reality in many places but we haven't seen some one write an amazing poem about it as Susan has done it here.. I would say brilliant and it deserves 10/10 as usual, thanks for sharing

Poets try to tell the Truth, But for that they are either Disregarded, Or considered sillier, Than a frightened, Mother Goose. Regardless, Susan, keep shining the truth.

This is a very important step to take at times. Thanks for sharing and the reminder.

At present the mentalities of some people are such that they are not ready to accept one's bright sight or his valuable remarks. So it is better to remain silent instead of debating which causes wrath and hinders peace. Dear Susan, I appraise your way of presentation that has been nicely inscribed. Lovely poem. A..10

The internet has a way of misconstruing a comment into something that was not intentionally meant to hurt or anger. That's can be a huge problem with online commenting. I try to be careful what I say to try not to offend or my comment be taken the wrong way. However unfortunately some people look for offense and there is nothing to do but walk away knowing in your heart you have not meant to hurt anyone.

In certain situations, when life itself is in in peril, there is no other choice than to hide. When retaliation can lead to greater confrontation, the wise will prefer to keep silence than create a stir. But keeping silence all the time is suicidal. In a dire situation, if a well meaning friend or well wisher advises us to seek cover, we have to oblige to avoid a broil and to save ourselves from a situation where the choice is between escaping unscathed or getting fatally hurt! Susan, here you have created an atmosphere of paramount tension that there is only a choice between life and death! The power of the poem lies in that escalating tension!

weird and best. to crucify the one who is best. to hide the one who isn't a coward. but he won't keep silence, and he won't hide. we remain in fear... ... ... hope I understood

I Agree with Judith! You Really Put That Perfectly! ! ! Excellent Job! ! ! ! ! Thank You! ! ! Very Much For Sharing! ! ! ! Zillion more 10s! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Be thankful in life! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

This is a vivid poem. I was caught up in the tension of the moment and the suffocating atmosphere of the poem. If safety demands we live such hidden lives, life itself has lost its allure. Our freedom is so compromised in this poem, but the voice of the speaker becomes strident in the second half and that closing image of CRUCIFIXION shows how high these stakes are. DON'T SAY ANYTHING - following that survival advice we end up censoring ourselves, the bad guys in power don't have to silence us, we've done that workd for them.

They could crucify you...this line speaks a lot. If you don't fit in, you have a price to pay. We have to hide behind masks because we are scared of the penalty imposed on people who dare to differ and reject the common notions. Social acceptance is a universal theme. Your poem evokes strong feelings in the readers no matter which part of the world they belong to. A sure 10 for me.

Your poem, simply written, begins with childhood and in the end, evokes Christ. Yes, the message is simple and it does seem that we carry our childhoods into adulthood with us, so the choice of the speaker sounding like a parent speaking to a child really works with your theme. Being social creatures, we need each other to get along but how far do we have to go along to get along? It seems so many of our behaviors are motivated by fear. It is indeed difficult to find our individual voices and then we have to figure out what do with them. Do we speak out? Do we stand up for our beliefs? Can we weather the consequences of such actions if they are against the norm or the majority? Can we live beyond such fear?

very good advice for those living in my country! ! you have stated your case well-10

Dearest Rebel with a cause, Brave are those that speak out, That are not afraid of the truth, That can say, I accuse Because my spirit and mind are free And they belong solely, to me. Brave poets like yourself and others here, realize what is going on and cringe at the though of being taken for fools and must express disconformity with what we know is wrong, denounce intolerance as the raven's song. You have done this so well here and for that we congratulate you and admire your stance. Thank you for this wonderful and open work., that will not allow, the Dark Ages, nor intolerance, imprison the free thinker.

An amazing poem. What starts out, or seemingly so, a children's poem quickly becomes a cautionary tale of what happens in a world of us-and-them. It's a paradigm in which humanity seems to find itself trapped. Progressive types are always looking for that one special ideology that will liberate each one of us. But ideologies, every one and all, are just paradigms for setting up the us-them dynamic.....Great poetry!

The Hollywood crowd tell tales of the dark days of the cold war witch hunts yet do not hesitate to blacklist or spread their venom toward modern day dissenters of their views. Apparently two wrongs do make a right in the through the looking glass mentality of today. Beware those that censure different opinions by labeling contrary thinkers as phobia this and that. Islamophobe, Homophobe, xenophobe. All words to discredit and marginalize. Any questioning of the almighty tolerant crowd will be subject to the giant stamp of RACIST and no debate or even the alluding to an opinion outside of the carefully crafted limits of the acceptable will be tolerated. Reason, logic and common sense are crushed beneath the hammer that cleverly disguises itself as diversity and tolerance. Such a perversion and distrust of opposing viewpoints is found today in Soviet style re-engineering of the face of reality. I hear much talk of the same old villains from pens dipped in the common ink of indoctrination. Written upon that ever expanding page of ignorance. Today the victim is king and the inquiring mind is relegated to the dark corners of society. I love your writing because quite honestly the vast majority of the writers on this site hold the same old views. Propped up to look original but still the same twice-told tales. Those inside and outside of the herd appear to me to be still one and the same. Unable to see the forest for the trees........................keep doing what you do Susan. Brilliant and insightful and a poem that needs to be taken to heart.

Yes, those who do not follow the herd are targeted.