Waves of silence circling around,
surrounding everything
A deep ocean of suffocating noiseless notes
What I hear when straining to listen-nothingness
Quiet reverberates from these empty walls-
Rockets down the hallway
Slams into the ceilings, hurtles deep into
the pit of my stomach
Makes me weep, hurts the inner-most part of me-
this quiet, quiet house
No children's voices, no clatter of toys
no sounds of any kind
These weekends, in this silence I am alone now.
Immense this absence of sounds
Colossal the hushed words-words that no longer come.
They beat on my brain.
I can hear your voice.
And it's calling to me
Words to forget
Words to bury deep
Strangle the words, squeeze them till they pop!
Never hear the words again.
Never take them in-
I don't love you anymore
Anymore. anymore. never again
So quiet now-no sound, not a whisper
Only the sound of tears dripping.
Absence of breathing-of sighs, of
any sound of skin.
Only this aching silence, screaming loneliness-
Pressing in, pressing down.
Drowning me in it.
Making me silent, hushed, muffled-so
quiet.