Silence

Speaks louder than waves crashing
Than water. Falling
From a hundred miles
High
Than a fire spout
On a drought ravaged plain
A volcanic eruption
At the ocean floor

What's more
Silence pulls me deeper like a walking
Sleeper like a mountain
Steeper than sheer glass
Walls

Like silence is all
I can think of
All I can drink of
Drawing me in and down to the brink of

Dissolution reality intrusion insanity
cold-hearted
Fusion of our
anti-communion

Silence is brutal
As it is beautiful
Deep and eternal
Silence infernal

Silence between silence
Silence without sound
Eyes darting away
Let's me know I'm down
Way down
On your list of things
You need to get to
I've let you get to me
To let me regret you

Silence does to me
What nothing else does to me. 

It serves to prove to me 

there's a darker place than 

jealousy.

Silence reminds me
There's still a mass of pain in me 

that festers never to let me be
something I. Can. See. Taking over
Everything.

And now on the MARCH bouncing from bar to bar...

lines begin to blur...speech to slur...

I confer with a bottle of Jack 

and Mac and Johnnie Black...

sneak attack.

Did you say something?

Are you?

Are you talking?

Are you talking to ME?

Or is silence
stalking me
taunting me
wanting me

To set you free
That silence of yours

That...Silence