the silence

the silence

A Poem by alienkid

The loneliness stretched on for miles and miles.
It made a home inside of my heart,
and distorted the world around me.
But it didn't manage to drown me.
It just had its hand around my neck.
And it sat there. It waited. It was so, so quiet.

It used to hurt.
The thoughts in the back of my mind were painful.
A salt-in-the-wound kind of ache.
But it was the type of sadness that I knew I had to deal with,
because everybody else did.
It was the type of sadness that I could let myself harbor. 

I don't know what happened.
You have to believe me, I don't know what happened.
Something changed: the switch flipped, the wind stopped blowing a certain way.
And my mind fell. 
I couldn't find peace anywhere, but I looked for it everywhere. 
It was as if all the light inside of me had melted away.
Because the thoughts weren't just thoughts anymore - they were shadows.

And the pressure on my neck kept growing.
It matured from a slight twinge into a crushing weight.
It choked me.
It choked all of the people I wanted to be.
It ruined all of the the things I wanted to say.
And now all I am to anybody is a faded bruise,
on a corpse's neck.

© 2017 alienkid


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Added on August 27, 2017
Last Updated on August 27, 2017
Tags: emotional, poetry, poem, loneliness, sad, feelings, pain, personal, depression

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alienkid
alienkid

United Kingdom