We all sit around a token of silence, as if a tomb, underneath lies a feeling dear to all. And we hear whispers. Our eyes, afraid, jump about the many faces arranged in a circle, where everyone is equally distant from the token in the centre. Though some glimpses fall onto the eyes for brief, independent moments, they don’t hear the mournings behind another’s eyelids.

If they cared, they would not leave
And they always leave
Make of that what you will

Tired and bored I’ve grown of the play
Stay
I intend to utter
But no other word comes after
Even the sounds leave
Me to suffer in darkness
In my empty room filled with silence

A home is but a house when the soul is in distress, a solid block with a roof on top. Raindrops leak in, tears leak out, and of that only the garden flowers are aware because the body drowns itself in silence. Lungs, unable to vomit the pain inside, and tongue, incapable of sculpting sentences out of air, are left to rot in the face of the noise that keeps eating its way from the mind through the heart. The soul screams, but no one is home, and the silent cries remain invisible to strangers that pass by, to birds that sing, to seers that sleep. Except for some who know. Yet, they either are too far away to mend the wounds, or have chosen to desert.

This house has no home
This home has no heart

This house has no home
This home has no heart
This heart has no soul
This soul has no part
This soul has no part
I failed to feel, to see, to believe
To breathe, to heal, seal the eyes that can see
You’re alone with your thoughts
To end it all

I curse that I feel
I feel that I cursed
All that I loved here
I buried here first
All that I love
I failed to see, I failed to feel inside
These crosses I loved, I held on my side, I kept on my side
And I need to go where I don’t have to fight inside

I failed to feel, to see, to believe
To breathe, to heal, be the eyes that could see
Hold your light, there’s a sky for each one to see
But I still bleed this fire, the war inside

But I still bleed the fire
I still bleed the fire
I still bleed this fire