Your presence is so loud
It irritates my skin.
Your breathing sends me seething
Only the thought of silence
Can make me whole again.
Silence,
Something so quiet,
No thoughts,
No voice,
No presence,
Just a sweet end.

You are too loud,
It's suffocating,
Crushing,
I can't breathe.
I must quiet my thoughts or they may hear me. Quiet your breathing,
Will you just leave me!

Finally static.
I prayed for silence,
I craved the silence,
And it came.
Being empty,
It is familiar,
It's unfeeling,
It is nothing.

There is a power in silence,
Words unsaid yet known,
Unspoken truths that bind us,
Grown.
And yet in your absence,
Amidst the silence,
I found my voice,
And it bloomed despite your violence.
A fragile flower,
Now,
A spirited defiance.

No more silence.