By Tanqueray Cowboy
Date: 18 May 2000

The Silence

Comes now the silence,

        Wherein your heart does not beat

        As it once did - My head upon your breast.

Comes now the silence,

        Wherein I cannot hear your laughter,

        Or your voice - or your sleeping breath against my back.

There is just the silence.

                Wailing.

                        Deafening.

You left to find your destiny,

        and left behind no sound.


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