Poetry Puzzle Pieces

Silence

Silence is probably one of the loudest nosies you'll ever hear.

It's one of those heart-stopping moments where everything becomes sickeningly still.

The world suddenly leaves you and everything is blank,

Why does this feel like a lifetime?

It's only a few seconds before you're crashing down.

Physically or mentally; sometimes both.

Words being nonexistent and finding oxygen to fill your lungs becomes hard,

When did it get so hard?

Silence stings like the feeling you wish you had in your fingers as they shake.

Knowing that if you say "I'm fine" one more time you'll break.

But you're already broken, the rest of the world just can't see it.

Why can't you hide it?

It's too late now. The single tear wiped away so easily has become a never ending cascade.

Your shoulders shake, the effort of holding it in hurts so badly.

But not as much as the effort it takes for you to accept it.

God damn, why does it hurt so much?

Then you're here. Reduced to an empty ball of nothing which is there but not all here all at once,

But it's crazy. No one should have this much emotion put through them.

Conceal and heal is what you want to feel.

When did feelings become so serial?

Time flies and you're hiding from the silence.

Hands, heads, heart, feet, all of them being kept busy.

But that single second catches you off guard. You hit a cross-road pointing from your past to the future.

And then what?