The Sound of Silence

When we first started dating I had no expectation of forever I was content with the immediate And enjoyed each moment with her All the mundane chatter And flirtatious wordplay Leading to the longing looks And the sentimental words of love Back then time evaporated, Hours seeming to pass in seconds And in all those moments Precluding our life together The one thing we never had was silence But that was then and this is now And now the silence deafens me No more chatter Words are used miserly As if endowed with great value And not to be wasted On flirtation or sentiment Words, when used, now bite With venomous spite Moments now last an eternity Clocks that once seemed to race through time Run now in slow motion Her contemptuous looks wither me Longing now for my extinction