SHADOWS

Silence eclipses me suddenly...

I cannot hear anything nobody is saying

Only the vibration of silence resonate, deep within my core.

Like the vast waters of the ocean - something's welling...

Something is welling inside of me...I cannot escape it...I become it

I am trapped by the sadness of my spirit...

My soul is crying out, for there is no way out

No way out this misery, I have bestowed upon myself.

I am lost... I'm lost inside the labyrinth of my own heart...

But the darkness, I realise, is strangely bearable...

So I steep myself in it, so I can become it,

So I can devise a permanent way out...

Hours pass, like heavy shadows of age-old ghosts.

Time drags on, and I still sit here with the weight of silence

The silence, which I know I must now break,

If I should ever escape the iron clutches,

Of the times long forlorn; I need to be reborn

And like the Phoenix, rise from my own ashes...