<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527808" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>His Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Granddad carried his silence <br>Like a cloak. His chair by the fireplace <br>Held his shadows, dark images <br>Of trenches, friends blown apart, <br>Decapitated, armless, legless, <br>Crowded around him as he sat <br>And stared. Some days in his garden <br>With you by his side, his comrades <br>Hid beyond the sun’s rays, <br>The cloud’s motion, the birdsong, <br>He’d speak in slow monosyllables <br>Of flower’s growth or colour or scent <br>Not caring at that moment why the guns <br>Were silent or where his friends all went.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527808" data-title="His Silence de Terry Collett" data-description="Granddad carried his silence Like a cloak. His chair by the fireplace Held his shadows, dark images Of trenches, friends blown apart, Decapitated, armless, legless, Crowded around him as he sat And stared. Some days in his garden With you b..."></div> </div> </div>

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