"The Sound" by Kim Addonizio

“The Sound” by Kim Addonizio is a very short poem, but I thought it had a lot of meaning to it. He talks about how every way of suffering has a sound, even if we do not see it. I have never noticed it until I read this poem that this statement is true. When people hear suffering, their minds go to gory pain and loud screams. But as mentioned in the poem,  there is more ways to suffer. When Kim talks about how the mother sighs when the daughter leaves for a date, she is explaining that even though the mother might feel happy, she is still in pain knowing that her daughter is growing up and will soon be out of the house away from her. Just because the mother can be happy that she is growing up, does not mean that she is ready for her daughter to leave her side. Therefore she is unhappy and has as a “resigned sigh.” Everything suffers in a way, weather it is over a small problem or big problem, and it all has its own way of making sound.