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Silence surrounds you

For Rock's EDGY Challenge

By Roderick MakimPublished about 18 hours ago 1 min read
Silence surrounds you
Photo by Andraz Lazic on Unsplash

What is the colour of silence?

...

You know its formaldehyde smell

Funeral parlour tricks

Preserving corpses like

It makes a fucking difference.

...

Dry retch taste

In the back of your

Throat chokes

Words stillborn before

They can be spoken

Leaving only

Silence.

...

But what is its colour?

...

White is the colour of

Nothing.

...

Death the eternal

Nothing.

..

White the true colour of

Death

The eternal silence.

sad poetryFree Verse

About the Creator

Roderick Makim

Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.

I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.

For more: www.roderickmakim.com

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  • ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons)18 minutes ago

    Intense subject with a good slice of EDGY! Thank you for entering this challenge! Stay tuned!

  • Mackenzie Davisabout 15 hours ago

    Well that made me very sad. I really like the nuanced emotions coming thru. I felt the cynicism quite strongly.

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