We used to love..... one another

Hidden behind the mask

        It's sad how we've become so distant, so far away that nothing makes sense anymore. We all are tucked away in a little crevice hoping to not be seen or found. Life is crazy! I just want to go outside but I can't. Instead I sit here below a banister waiting for the silence that may never come.

   I've gotten used to their screams and the silent killer. He's knocking on our door everyday. We choose to hide. We dare not attack because he attacks back harder. sometimes I wonder where he came from and why he's here. I hear so many people say this and that but I still have my suspicions. I mean, who wouldn't?

Every day the silence continues, but the voices grow louder. I can hear them out of my window; screaming for help. They grow louder and closer and soon become muffled by my heart beat. My heart beat grows louder, I can feel sweat dropping off my face and soon the panic arises.

I close my eyes hoping to drown out their screams but little to no avail they've followed me there too. I try to run but branches break below my feet and I fall over. I can feel them suffocating me. Slowly I feel like I'm losing every last bit of oxygen I have.

I keep wondering why they're so loud. Don't they ever sleep? I can remember a time when sleeping was great. When I didn't wake up scared or wake up sweating from the nightmares. Now I do my best to hide the fear. The fear beyond my mask.

How deep beyond my mask us my fear you may ask. Well, just imagine the biggest oceans in the world combined together, all the water slowly begins to overflow. Eventually all that's left us destruction. Everything in its place was destroyed, torn down... Ripped to pieces. That's my mask. That's how deep it goes. And with it my fears. Only difference is my fear isn't calmly floating at the top. It's down at the bottom trying to find a life vest. Trying to find some way to escape. Someone to help it escape. But everyone walks by.

They don't care to rebuild the town it destroyed. They decide to let it continue to suffer. I can remember a time when I felt you'd help me. Give me a life vest and pull me ashore. But we don't talk anymore. You took your own mask and destroyed other towns, including mine... Or at least what was left of it anyway.