When Life Stood in Silence

By Cindy Placide

When Life Stood in Silence is an autobiography in Poetry which depicts a series of life’s events and the deep emotions experienced over many years.
These poems express pains from love lost and desired, death, adversities, and a yearning to emerge from deep emotional distress, trauma, and depression.
It tells of the writer’s turmoil, when life halted, and the need for solitude. Moreover, it highlights her daunting inability to relate anything from the world outside the soul except her own misery which laments from far crevices of the heart.
It speaks of hope, strength, faith, and a call for help from one’s destructive thoughts. It’s where life’s purpose seems to have no voice and no longer speak to a battered soul; where no one seems to hear loud outcries for survival.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Dec 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796078954

Cindy Placide

When you speak of someone who has faced many trials but continues to persevere, You can rest assured the name Cindy Placide will be mentioned somehow. Wondering who she is? Cindy Placide is a three-time author and poet of Caribbean descent. She was born on the beautiful island of St. Lucia and has always had a passion for writing. However, she has also faced many challenges in her life, including feeling displaced and like she didn't fit in. Despite these adversities, she has always tried to find meaning in her life. After several tragedies and attempts on her life, Cindy decided to dedicate her life to helping others. She is now a motivational speaker and author who encourages others to overcome their challenges and find purpose in life. Cindy is a resilient, ambitious, and compassionate person who is driven by her faith, love for God, her children and for others. She is an advocate for Mental Health and Suicide prevention, Autism among a few others and seeks to continue bringing awareness to stigmas plaguing our society. Her goal is to transform lives one conversation, one story at a time. Cindy is a true inspiration, and her story is one of hope and resilience. Keeping an upbeat, bubbly personality under trail is a reminder that no matter what challenges we face in life, we can overcome them if we stay prayerful and never give up.

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When Life Stood

in Silence

Cindy Placide

Copyright © 2019 by Cindy Placide.

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Contents

(1) Loves’ Fire

(2) Beloved One

(3) Expressions -Someday

(4) A Grieving Heart

(5) Your Special Touch

(6) Drowning

(7) Look Ahead

(8) Emotional Roar

(9) Repentant Heart (Pleas for Mercy)

(10) Cries for Escape

(11) Rugged My Road

(12) Deep Into a Broken Heart

(13) Majestic Treasure

(14) Forbidden Due

(15) In the Balance

(16) Immobilized in Time

(17) New Horizons

(18) Unchained Heart

(19) First Love

(20) Silencing Solace

(21) Immigrants Woe

(22) Mirror of the Word (We Assemble)

(23) Voice of Raindrops

(24) Thief of Innocence

(25) Vipers in Plain Sight

(26) Eyes of Destiny

(27) Anxieties Claws

(28) What Lies Within

(29) When?

(30) I Dreamt of You Today.

(31) Prisoner

(32) Eyes of Despise

(33) Love Denied

(34) Invisible

(35) Power in One

(36) The Fire of Loss

(37) Royal Beauty on Your Head

(38) Stings of Death

(39) Eyes on Forever

(40) Grapple in the Rise

(1)

Loves’ Fire

(1)

I wish we could be

I wish you could see

The volcano of love on fire

Burning, yes erupting from deep within me.

(2)

With objective blinders

Your real eyes

Does not fully realize

How deeply rooted my affection lies.

(3)

True as a twinkling star

Pleasurable like the moon afar

Powerful as the rays of the sun

Darling, to you my heart belongs.

(4)

Once a beautiful Stranger

Now a permanent lover

My whole being is in danger

All of me you have captured.

09/2014

(2)

Beloved One

(1)

My Precious Love

A gift from above

As the Sun sets and the moon rises

You’re where my heartbeat harmonizes

(2)

Each day I wake

A moment I take

To thank the Most High

For sending My Sweetie Pie

(3)

You’re the shine in my Sun

The water in my rains thrum

My summer in winter

The light in my darkest corner

(4)

You bring me happiness

And heighten my pleasure

You’re the essence in my laughter

The uneasiness in each pains layer

(5)

The light of love in your eyes

Are as clear blue morning skies

Such a magnet you are to my heart

From you, I may never part.

(6)

You are my bit, my everything

Completion like diamonds you bring

You’re my heart My Beloved! Can’t you see?

Yes! Surely you must be the only one for me.

2014/2015

(3)

Expressions -Someday

(1)

Someday,

Of You, I will joyously be free

Yes! From this torment of us, you’ll see!

Released from this torturous

Punishing of my love

Aching to fly free like a dove

(2)

Someday,

I will wake up,

And won’t long for your