Your silence fills the space between us
With a mesmerizing magnanimity
Restless reminders of my own solitude
And cimmerian chaos
Huddled together hastily in my head

My silence seeks
to abandon, lie and betray
Those around me
As if they were more dead than alive
More detached than they seem

Your silence is dangerously calm,
Capable of consuming the other
Till one feels the depth of your soul
Till they are famished
And flailing their arms about alone

But my silence
Can be infinitely more cruel
Like a storm
Only capable of relentless despair
And delirium