The Sound of Silence

It’s deafening All around Nothing else is heard As it isn't heard at all It’s suffocating And terrifying Suspense grows In the absence of sound What might be seen As peaceful at first Is not so, as can be seen Or rather heard, though not The silence entraps you In an eternal net Captures you in its web Forever stuck with your Troubling thoughts that Were also caught in the web Trapped and alone with Paranoia and anxiety growing Unable to get out until This world ends The silence is deafening And still after The crash of Something heavy Written on March 20, 2020