SILENCE!

Boring, deafening, old silence –

Boring like a love-letter in shreds;

Deafening like the misty, distant, resonating mountains in sight,

but beyond human reach;

old like the dark, toothless wizard next door…

A lone heartbeat pelting so fast,

my sole hope –

going with haste and gait faster than wind-speed.

Thick, heavy silence –

Thicker than three darknesses conjoined;

Heavy as the black sorrows of sordid earth.

Joy, sanity and slumber eludes me.

Can’t bat an eyelid. Bloodshot eyes remain wide shut.

And at the break of dawn,

SILENCE! remains my soulmate,

my strange bedfellow - forever by my side.

© Conarth Macheka - 02/8/2012