Writers Jam

i hear the screams when i sleep at night. dark thoughts coming alive in the shadows. the bitterness on my tongue. the cold on my skin. sinking in, alone. something lost, someone forgotten. 

i hear the pain in silence. strangers on the train. familiar faces every day, if only for a moment. we know each other and yet we don’t. so many feelings to witness, friends to make, but always in passing.

i hear no birds sing. as my ears bleed, the walls are closing in. where do we go from here? when all is lost and all is said? what remains but the ruins of who we once were. mere beings bound by mortality, now turned to ash. you and i.