In The Silence

The empty hallways of a mind abused

By the elixir of promised hope

Have decayed, given way to barren planes of existence

Where demons and deities fear to tread.

The overwhelming silence of failed

Thoughts and dreams and worlds

Suffocate the fragile lungs of immortal creatures.

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I’m talking to a crowded room

Full of monsters without ears to hear me,

Eyes to take in the dreams

Sprawled out like nebulas in these blue oceans.

Silence. Silence. Silence.

The abhorrent quiet of a room filled to bursting

With people who never wanted to hear me

In the first place.

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The quiet haunts me, rolls through

And tears the wood from the house I created,

Sculpted with shaking fingers and cramped hands.

It eats up the food in my pantry

Like the pervasive moths in the houses of the cursed.

A side character in my own life sitting gingerly

In the stands listening to the world quietly breathing.

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Talk about me, it whispers, pleading.

Tell them. Tell them all, it cries in my dreams.

It’s alive beneath your feet, its heartbeat

Thumping in the smallest leaves of the tallest tree.

The dirt sings and cries and dreams just like me,

Unheard. Unnoticed, but caught up in the stars,

The dust of the galaxy regardless.

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Tall trees whipping back and forth, letting the wind

Carry their stories into the ears of the sensitive

Are the same as me, my only family.

Whisper-quiet words are whisked off my lips.

They dance on the ferocious wind swirling,

Quietly vanishing to a new world

Where I will never see the life they lead

Or the souls they touch.

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I will be entrapped, feet like immobile roots in the dirt,

In the perfect silence burning away my oxygen.

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