The silence swells around me like a dust cloud of darkness
Waves of it sweeping in to consume the colors and fabric of my life
Leaving behind only nondescript grays in its wake
Quiet ebbs and flows upon the shores of my mind
Unobtrusively at first offering peace and serenity
It lulls and seduces, calling to me as if it were salvation
As if in a dream I embrace it because it is all I know
I wait in the nightmare for a word or a sigh
Just one sound to break the absoluteness of the void
The silence presses against me holding me as a lover would
Then binds me like a kidnapper that has robbed me of my life
In the end, crushing me as it bears witness to my pain
