Keep your peace, keep it near
Hang it beneath your eyes
and in your deepest of pockets
Ending of breaths
When you’re out teetering
On the edges of all things
of which you’ve grown so fond
a Balcony, front porch, car window
Whispering names to the abyss
Seeking her face in a crowd
and curves in gentle tufts of smoke

Haunted by the voice in the dark
In the corners
Though it is all your own
Multitudes of chatter
Speaking all at once
Cannot ousting the quiet
Boisterous rings of silence  
Hangs heavy in the air
Drowning all, muffling words
Numbs every sense

But I have left myself here
to be drowned
This dismal, tangled world of
Decaying empty spaces, wasted
Where nothing is the way it should be
And no one is the wiser
Such is the universe I’ve made
Where I laugh about being mad
and you helped too
Everyone chipped in