The Five Senses

Silence

There is a man screaming at the top of his lungs in the back of your mind. And you're telling him te keep quiet, to shut up! Because people are looking now. But he doesn't listen and just keeps screaming. Your head is filled with degrading words, one after the other. Suddenly there are gunshots going off and you're not sure where they are coming from, but still you sink to your knees to try and avoid the bullets. The gun keeps going off and the man keeps screaming and people are still looking. And suddenly you realise that this is all happening in your head and that the only thing that is real, is the fact that people are staring and that just makes everything worse. Because they think you're weird, they think you're overreacting. Your ragged breaths are getting out of control and you feel like you're going to faint. You can feel the darkness surrounding you and you welcome the pitch black nothingness wrapping you in hug. When suddenly there is a spark in the darkness and you feel a hand on your shoulder. You look up and when you see their face the gunshots stop, the man quiets down and just like that everything is silent. Because they are here and they tell you they always will be. So you let yourself be pulled up. You allow them to wipe your tears away with their sleeve and you let them hold you and whisper sweet things in your ear, which makes up for all the bad things the screaming man had said. Until eventually you find yourself at home, at peace, with them and your broken world seems a little bit more whole again.