IT/ IT ECHOES

It

By Kadie Chambers

Sometimes it’s like a black hole
That you’re sucked into
And you don’t know why

When you sleep, it creeps
Winding it’s power around you
Slowly suffocating

You don’t know what’s wrong
It’s indestructible, invisible
Unreachable

You try to put it into words
It comes out as
Silence

You sit and think
Think hard
When you don’t know what you’re thinking

You’re happy, sad
Then mad
You don’t understand
Why
You try to keep busy
To ignore it
But it keeps nagging

You laugh
And stop
Because it silences you

Too many questions
No answers
Silence

Soon you become it
The silence
At it’s worst

You laugh, cry,
Get angry, love
But it’s still there

You are the silence
And inside you
It echoes