Have you ever heard silence?

A faint whisper just out of reach

It’s the only thing that is timeless,

Lingering after a scream

Have you ever heard silence?

It used to stay in the shadow,

hidden at 2 am at night.

Watching me sleep in the distance

but be gone in the morning light.

Now it follows my every step

It swallows my every thought

It’s leaving my heart hallow and

I’m drowning in the shallow end.

Sometimes it sits on my shoulder,

Even presses its beak inside my ear

I shut my eyes and let it speak

Hoping it will after disappear.

But he taunts me, and he shrieks

Blissful phrases in my ears

Sending me to a haze of daydreams

In which he does disappear.

It’s you and me together

in the center of everything

If chaos could grow feathers

You and I would be flying.

And then he disappoints

As I snap back to reality

And I have pains in my joints

As if he had ripped out a part of me.

A faint laugh just out of reach

As he mocks my dismantled shell

Lingering before a scream

Stuck together in this cell.

Still, when it’s pitch black outside

and I think about loose ends

It’s his comfort that I seek

Seems like he’s my only friend.