Silence

Photo by Grant Whitty on Unsplash

there was so much silence

in my house today.

and then screaming

so much screaming

in my mind.

a scream like all the suffering

in the world was condensed

into this tiny moment of silence.

now there’s silence in my mind too.

the kind that changes reality.

the kind that silences the world.

the kind that lasts forever.

I don’t know how to live right now.

I don’t know how to walk, talk, think.

I’m an infant, grasping for love.

eternal recurrence was Nietzsche’s gift to me.

and I’ll wake up one day again

and see your tiny paws moving at the speed of light.

and the silence will go away.