There sits a hole in the fabric
of space and time,
where the colour drains
and memories are lost
like faded nights after red wine,
like dreams in waking light.
The universe is missing it's heart.
I can't hear the sound beating.
That constant companion through cold nights,
the echo of its pulse has stopped rebounding.
There is no sound in
this empty space.
It has just left the us
fearing, desperate, afraid.
What it is we could be meeting?
What is nearing?
What is the meaning?
WHAT ARE WE NOT HEARING?
The silence. Implies violence,
inspires fear. Heightened thoughts
frighten. Tightening around
your already taut throat.
Your fists clench
as throat threatens to rupture
from the strain of screams
that won't release their corrupted structure.
WHAT ARE WE NOT HEARING?
Even if the air wasn't vacuum empty.
like the stillness of space. Devoid of any
energy to expand, there is still
emotion aplenty. There still surges
a crowd, A colossal verbal outrage,
trying to emerge, that keeps hitting a wall.
These words won't purge.
They just sit.
Awaiting a sudden shift.
A drift in the atmospheric breeze.
A smashing of bricks.
BUT WHAT ARE WE NOT HEARING?
This silence has sat still for far too long
It's become the norm, we have conformed
and now we all perform to its rule.
The cruel silence, making us mime artists
in a sea of expression.
This still silence is eating, feeding, digesting,
taking great chunks out of everything.
No more sounds are we hearing,
No songs can we sing.
Death waits, with a grin.
Dead weights on lips of sin.
In the silence it can feel like your head is in a spin,
Tumbling through silent washing machine dreams.
lke a Chaplin movie shown on silver screen.
BUT WHAT ARE WE NOT HEARING?
Is something more threatening
still out there looming,
I remember a sound
from when I was young,
a long distant sound
they called it the hum.
It would get under your skin.
Ripping your soul out from therein,
and leave you begging
for the silence within.
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