Unending Silence
You were silent
And I was arrogant,
Screaming for the attention I neither
needed nor deserved.
Your notebooks were filled
With the replies to my endless questions
Of who and what everything was
And my head became filled
With dreams of our next starlit conversation.
But as the months got colder
and the tension around us grew,
I realized
Slowly
That I had fallen in love with you
And I’ll never be able
To say that again
because
Your blood spilled onto the snow
that one cold, dark night
The voice that you had found
and used to whisper to me softly
was silenced for eternity
And I finally grasped
That maybe silence
was the best.