Silence roared proudly in my ears

Causing my sight to swim in agony.

All those frozen faces laughed

As I stared hopelessly in their direction,

I knew then as I know now

That no one was was going to come

And save me from myself.

I had already had my chance,

But the memory fogs and swirls away

Leaving me hollow like their graves

And as empty as a broken bottle.

I wanted to scream, but no sound rose.

So trapped was I that I shattered

Falling to pieces on the road,

Lying there just waiting to be stepped on

For attention would come only if I was

Constantly getting in their way,

Since everyone will notice the fool.

Those frozen faces will stay like that,

Expressions of manical glee and hysteria.

I recognize the silence for what it is,

The beating of my heart now stopped.

Glowing like pride in the face of a demon

Flirting haphazardly with danger's name,

I know this torturous day by sight

For it grinned with feral hunger

To claw at the last bits of my sanity.

So I'll kneel in submission to my nightmares

Casting off the hope that bound me tight

While solitude wraps around me and eases death into me.