Love Poem: Deafening Silence
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Written by: Ink Empress

Deafening Silence

Living in a realm where 
the air seems to 
be still as stone,
invisible, like a 
ghost of a rose, 
translucent and frozen in 
time of ruthless seconds.

My heart still 
keeps pacing to 
hear the flickering 
rays of your voice,
flatlined and hushed 
beyond reach, 
whilst I’m here 
searching for
serenity through 
sanguine serenades,
woven meticulously 
to my soul,
in unwavering waves from 
thousand seas away.

What can I do to make you 
love me like I love you,
must I steal the stars 
from its rightful skies,
just so that I can 
please your eyes?
Or should I hide behind these 
rhymeless phrases, 
where veiled vowels 
and nonchalant nouns 
within poetic punctuations 
pierce through 
this bleeding quill?
Would it seem like these 
tunes have been tortured 
together to descend and 
tangle with tainted thorns?
Tormented traps tied 
from an invincible inferno.

But aren’t we breathing 
within binary 
codes constantly? 
surfing through the 
zigzags of repetitive 
numbers and 
acrobatic alphabets,
vaporized amongst 
empty spaces where 
the universe unfolds 
parallel paradigms.

Losing human connection 
in the deafening silence,
while channelled tunnels
carry wires through 
unassigned boards,
falling on our 
intellectual swords,
fingers tap against 
the cold keys,
unable to feel the 
warmth behind words-
misunderstood and 
misinterpreted as 
mountains eclipse the sun.

So let me grieve over 
the unsung sonnets;
maybe one-day I’ll meet my moon
in a sphere of immutable melodies—
forever calming these chaotic calligraphies.