Empty Silence

Empty Silence

The darkness

That is all I can see

That is all that is ever around me

The black is always there

A constant companion in the nowhere

I have long since given up hope and prayer

But it is not just dark

It is cold and empty

I float in this dark emptiness with nothing and no one

This cold creeping up on me but from it you cannot run

Into a living yet empty being this all seems to coalesce

My entire world seems to compress

It is blunt but at the same time seems to possess certain finesse  

Nothing can escape

Around everything this cold darkness seems to drape

Nothing could ever hope to take shape

But in this darkness and emptiness and coldness is one more thing

One more thing I forgot to mention

Perhaps worse than all three it seems to hold a certain tension

So disturbing it is like another dimension

...The Silence

The depth of the Silence is immeasurably immense

It has its own volume but makes the universe condense

From this intensity there is no defense

It is as if every being is still and listening

Stopped and waiting for something inexorably missing

It is the origin from which the other three spawned

It is the killer of everything here and beyond

 There is no way to possibly abscond

The Silence long ago wormed its way inside me

I am now its puppet

Not even able to beg or plea

Not that I any longer want to flee

I no longer know the world outside

The void is the only thing to which I am tied

In here I can live and yet hide

The world cannot see me for what I truly am

The thing they see is really just a shell around me

Talking and laughing

 It’s all a lie

I have no personality

I no longer have anything that makes up a reality

I have accepted the nothingness

I no longer feel anything

Devoid of want or care or emotion

My interior

Though opposite my exterior

Is the true form that I have taken

…For I am Empty

And my soul is Silent

 

 

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