Quiet now.
I can’t hear you speak.
These thoughts that my mind bears.
Hollow tongue in cheek.

I purge you from my thoughts.
I go on for a time.
Then you come crawling back
from the darkest corners of my mind.

What is this emptiness?
What of this pain I bear?
Why won’t you let me be?
Or else admit you care?

You push me away again.
And silence devours us two.
I’m back at square one again,
trying to forget about you.

It hurts me on these nights.
When I can’t have you near.
You pull away because you’re afraid,
but you’re not alone with this fear.

I know not what tomorrow holds.
Nor when my time on this earth is through.
I know not what plagues your thoughts,
or if I matter to you.

This silence, it has consumed me.
And forever, you grow afar.
I try to move on without you,
but long to be where you are.

Yet this is the path you’ve chosen,
as I seek a future long gone.
Reaching out for a helping hand,
I find that I’m alone.

I purge these voices from my mind,
and this goodbye, I disavow.
I long for the world in my dreams,
yet, they’ve grown quiet now.