By: Katelyn Tijerina
What do you do at night
when the world is paused
and there is no sound?
When the people sleep
and the dreamers weep
and the ones that are lost
are found?
When you are forced
to confront,
the doubt in your mind
in the silence of night
when there is no escaping
those thoughts.
Those that none ever hear
and you never say
during the day
but at night;
there is no escape
from the person you hate,
the world that has left
shambles in wake,
what kind of world
takes and takes?
These thoughts that haunt you
in the night
that come from your head
under the sky
that are determined to scare
and make you cry
that always make you think, why?
How do you hide
from who you are
when no distractions are left?
When the world is far
and the bumps
no longer make you jump
but the sounds in your head do?
We sleep at night
because the familiar fright
of truths come out.
The demons shout
not of your closet
but of your head
the canceling noise
that rackets your bed,
you toss and you turn but you can’t getaway
from the noise that is silent during the day
Picture from; Plaatsman, Pim. “Can You Be Addicted to Silence?” Knops, Knops.co, 4 Apr. 2018, knops.co/magazine/addiction-to-silence/.
