I Scream

The silence captures me,

Chilling my fragile bones.

Frightening is the sound

Of a world void of noise,

Only silence...I scream...

To a world of silence-unheard.

I am a mouse; the room fills with snakes,

Suffocating slowly-I cannot breathe;

When did I become so small...

Reality surrenders to unfathomed distain

Delusions are laughing in the shadows

Watching sanity fade in the silence-

It must be amusing to watch me...

Panic prevails as the walls close in-

Claustrophobia overwhelms me-

I claw at the skin, which contains me,

Paranoia paralyzes me,

Choking on this air that I cannot breathe;

Silence has won it has broken me

Infatuated with walls growing nearer

They are crushing-imagined or real.

This silence will destroy me-

I scream....I scream again,

An unsettling calm overtakes me-

I settle into the silence of my life,

Where I will scream no more.