Hadyn Adams

On Munch’s Skrik
 
Despite the fact your hands silence your ears
the anguished pain carved on your face betrays
some culmination of your deepest fears
more terrifying than a Gorgon’s gaze.
 
Two others figures walking behind you
seem calmly unperturbed by nature’s scream
that stabs the evening air and filters through
to firmly format your distorted mien.
 
Each viewer of your portrait clearly hears
in silence their sole solipsistic shriek,
a Doppler shift that they will not forget,
that turns their waking dreams into nightmares
and about which they never dare to speak
for it becomes their innermost secret.
 

Hadyn Adams is a graduate of Durham and Cambridge universities and has spent over four decades in education initially working in the U.K. and in the Middle and Far East. Creative writing has been a habit throughout his life and he has self-published three novels and had a number of poems printed in various magazines and anthologies.