VICKIE KNIGHT

Silence is Deafening

As the quiet settles around us,

I try to quell my uneasiness.

I realize there is an absence

of anything real within the room.

All the feelings that flooded us

a moment ago, have been sucked

into an inaudible vacuum of gloom.

We are left with a void,

once filled with everything

that couples share--

now empty and palpable,

in its deafening stillness.

I scream just to break the agony.