WOW!! This is just amazingly powerful, and the sadness is deep and sits with me...I cannot explain how this poem swept through me, and touched me inside.

I want to comment on this, stanza by stanza but I would be here all evening and I don't even know if I can post a comment that long (is there a limit on comment lengths, like does it stop you after so long?) anyway, there's me rambling.

"I wished for it to rain again but this time take me down,
flood my soul, and wash me far far away where I wouldn't
be able to hear the cacophony of words again"

^^^ But I shall say that this stanza, was the most powerful and amazingly literate piece and it really got to me...I read it on FB and I was instantly blown away, so I had to find what piece it was from....

You are an amazing writer, and an amazing person too...and this piece, well I really can't comprehend it...

Love this!! x

Judging comment:

"Just when I think I have seen it all from Mary-Anne, she goes and writes something like this. This is without a doubt not only one of my favourite poems of her's but also one of my favourite poems that I have come across. I adore this.
"and a voice that sung of a loneliness never answered."
"listening to hearts being broken."
These were two of my favourite lines, particularly the first. It reminds me of someone so lost, so filled with despair that they think they will never achieve happines no matter how much they may strive for it.

"But this rain chilled me."
"This rain soaked me."
I was fond of the sublte repetition here, keeping the theme of this dark and dreary weather and matching this person's mood and days, and I enjoyed how the repetition was only slight, and not worded precisely the same at both points.
"I didn't wish to speak anymore."
This takes me back to the mood and tone I felt at the beginning of the poem when loneliness is mentioned and it begins to tie the whole poem together in such a melancholic yet beautiful and elegant way.
"and speechlessly asking....why I had no one to tuck me close."
This is heart-breaking and something no-one should ever have to ask themselves, and I really can't think of a better way to wrap up this heartwrenching and haunting piece.
I wish I could say more because I'm truly touched and awed by the detail and attention that has gone into this poem, but I doubt my words could ever fully do this wonderful poem the justice it deserves."