Silence

Hello Darkness, My Old Friend
I've come to talk with you again,

Because there is only you that I can speak to.
Hope seems to have glided past me out the doors of my heart not so long ago.
Love seems to have followed along.



So there is only you my long familiar companion
You, and the silence that surrounds us.
The all too familiar scent of your cloak that wraps around me;
The cold wind that passes through the time-worn tears;
The rough touch of black cotton

Perhaps only you can understand the fears I am experiencing
Perhaps only you would listen to the cries of a man on the edge
And echo with empathy the pain that runs through every fibre of his being

So hello again my old friend. It's just us once again.
Perhaps you will stay this time around... You always have.