When the silence calls

When the silence calls

Your name

There is a place you go

So far away from this world

There in the darkening place

You feel the embrace of love

Which strangely feels

A lot like death

As all the breath

Is stolen from you

Here within the swirling eddies

Parts of your soul swim

In terrifying waters

As atoms of your experience

Coalesce

And dissolve

In a pool of cold fire

When trauma’s revisitations

Peak and spire

There is no way to explain this process

To any outsider

And so you must bear it alone

There are some darknesses

Only the strong can bear

There are some traumas that are unspeakable

Using words

There are some darknesses

That are too intense

To be fully shared

Or fathomed on an intellectual level

By anyone else

And this is why your soul

So often needs

The healing embrace

Of the silence