Shhh

Don’t talk

Don’t speak

Don’t let the words

Tumble out

Please

Don’t tell me

Should I care?

If truth

Be told

I don’t

Don’t talk

Don’t tell me

Don’t think me bad

It’s just your words

Shriek across

My mind

Demanding I care

I don’t

Be silent

Be soundless

Unspoken, unvoiced

Let me drink

Till drunk

On quietness

Intoxicated

Let me stumble

Into stillness

Let my soul

Be saturated

In solitude