Ok, so here's my second try at this. I can't remember which ones I've posted and which I haven't, so here goes....forgive me if there are repeats.
SILENCE
Silence is Golden,
So they say.
A blessing,
hard to come by
In today’s world.
Funny.
All I seem to get
Is silence. The sounds around me
Might as well be as nought
For all the sense they make.
The shouting and talking,
Whispering, mumbling, murmuring,
Screaming and laughing and chuckling and chortling,
The sounds of friends and family and loved ones,
All are absent, in my world.
The laughter is muted, the talking is
Suspended until further notice,
The chuckling and chortling and whispering and
Mumbling, all stopped and halted,
Their absence deafening,
The silence more ear-splitting then any noise
Could be.
Completely alone in this vast void,
This dark space,
This hellhole.
Limbo and purgatory,
Hell and Hel and Hades
Would be welcome respites from this.
No one around me, despite
Their proximity.
I call out,
No one hears. Why am I not surprised?
They can’t hear me,
the real me,
The Prisoner.
Silence is Golden,
So they say.
A blessing,
Hard to come by,
Not in my world.
SILENCE
Silence is Golden,
So they say.
A blessing,
hard to come by
In today’s world.
Funny.
All I seem to get
Is silence. The sounds around me
Might as well be as nought
For all the sense they make.
The shouting and talking,
Whispering, mumbling, murmuring,
Screaming and laughing and chuckling and chortling,
The sounds of friends and family and loved ones,
All are absent, in my world.
The laughter is muted, the talking is
Suspended until further notice,
The chuckling and chortling and whispering and
Mumbling, all stopped and halted,
Their absence deafening,
The silence more ear-splitting then any noise
Could be.
Completely alone in this vast void,
This dark space,
This hellhole.
Limbo and purgatory,
Hell and Hel and Hades
Would be welcome respites from this.
No one around me, despite
Their proximity.
I call out,
No one hears. Why am I not surprised?
They can’t hear me,
the real me,
The Prisoner.
Silence is Golden,
So they say.
A blessing,
Hard to come by,
Not in my world.