Quiet

What is the silence?
Realistion
the raw dawning of stark reality
for the slow learner
same patttern repeated continually
tinkle
       the penny drops!

What is the silence?
Acceptance
twas a solitary dream
perhaps a fantasy
a figment of an overactive imagination
and childish thoughts
        I see it now!

What is the silence?
Self preservation
protection from searing agony
of a heart continually fractured
splintered
          Irreparably damaged!

What is the silence?
comfortable numbness within
a hollow internal void
soundlessness
with just
the echo of what was
             but is no more x