Listen to the Silence*

Can you hear it?
Shush, just listen.
Its stone cold grasp encloses around you.
Can you feel it?
The way it breaths down your neck?
The screaming gets louder in your head
As the silence builds up around your fragile body.
You can't forget the things they said.
It's like a torture chamber.
They are killing you with their silence.
The words came out of their mouth and they waited.
Waited for you to explode,
Knowing that once they were quiet,
Their words would get to you.
The silence would build around you.
You feel like you are suffocatinng.
It squeezes the air from your lungs.
But all you can do is sit there,
Pulling out your own hair,
Going mad from the silence
Because all you can hear is the silence.
You can't move though.
You are frozen.
So you sit there,
and listen to the silence

*Done for a contest