THE SILENCE

Sometimes there are no words...

Just silence.

Or tears.

Time has stopped &

the world around you 

is muffled, dream-like.

You see things, people

and hear them -

but not really.

You want to wake up,

to shake off your trance,

Yet there is a certain safety here.

So you stay in the fog

and wait for words.

You struggle to come up with something that

even comes close to expressing 

the profound chaos of emotion inside.

At times, you don't even struggle

for there are certainly no words for This.

for This Reality that exploded into your world
 & crushed you,

& broke your heart.

For This,
there is only silence

and tears.

Some days I really want words & I painfully piece some together.

Some days other people want words from me & I am sadly mute.

I cannot explain this coming and going of expression

Any more than I can explain or predict

the surging & retreating rhythms of grief.

Please be patient with me

and find an ok-ness with this reality.

Because for This,

there is only silence

and tears.

Photo by:  Ozge Gurer Vatandas, Silence

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