Silent Scream in A to Z

It’s April of 2024 and Day 19 of the A to Z challenge. This year I am doing the theme of ‘26 Moments’ on my blog. I plan to pull out A to Z parts from diverse set which are more than just the parts and possibly describe the world of their own.  It can be a wonder, an invention, a community, the philosophy, a thought, a lead, a culture, a design, or basically anything that would make one wonder and ponder on.  26 imperfect petite flashes that are amongst and around us.

My everyday will have a selection, description, an eight line poem followed by an interpretation.

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Day 19: Silent Scream

Of the too many options that I had for S, I decided to go for ‘Silent Scream’. Silent scream is an oxymoron – can a scream be silent? Do they go together? it’s two contradicting words appearing together. It could be the pain that silences us, it can be the fallen tree in forest that no one heard, it can be the scream that has consumed one, it can be a voice against ill and evil, etc.  There are several movies, albums, books with the title Silent Scream, each artist giving their own interpretation. The 1984 anti-abortion film created and narrated by Bernard Nathanson with the title Silent Scream tops the chart in the list. We all scream. The silent ones are the most painful.

I am adding the famous Scream painting. Image Inference: By Edvard Munch – National Gallery of Norway 8 January 2019 (upload date) by Coldcreation, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69541493

Poem:
The seen
Are sold,
In the market
Of abstraction,
As a beauty,
As a masterpiece,
Because the silent screams
Are falling on no ears.

Everybody has had their share of silent screams in their personal or private spaces. Some turn into forms of art and some stay within. Silent screams have their own interpretations and with no voices and hidden words, is an unsolved encrypted masterpiece.