Silence is deadly, it stilled my heart,

So quiet, yet able to blow my world apart,

It deafened with a force beyond description,

Where before, your words were my world, my passionate addiction.

The silence deafened me when you took your words away,

No more slow, enticing verbal foreplay,

No more promises of how I was everything you'd need,

Each vow I consumed with a lover's greed.

Now there's a silence where once there was an audible heat,

Which scalded each time our worlds would meet,

No more noise, no more warmth, no more empty vows,

I will take comfort in the safety that silence allows.

Because with silence I am safe and I truly know,

That in time the need for noise in my life will once more grow,

And that noise will be loud enough to deafen the silence and pain,

And I will be loved and desired and truly needed again.