Silence
The dark hid nothing from my mind
I could see my thoughts as clearly as ever
I couldn't run
Couldn't hide
Nothing would chase them away
They followed me
Swiped at my sanity
Tearing it to bits
I tried to tune them out with music
Volume turned way up
Nothing came through the speakers
The disc remained silent
I couldn't get up to check it
There was more here than I thought
The voice slowly came closer
Trying to make its self heard
The voice wasn't his
The one I had been running from
It was mine
I had spent so long running
From my past
I didn't even notice
That it wasn't what I was running from
Myself became my past
Present and future
I shouldn't run
Shouldn't hide
It would only make things worse
I need to embrace it
It would hurt
But not as much as locking it away
I need to tell him
He wouldn't judge me
But his judgment was the one I needed
The only one that mattered to me
As I sat listening to the silence
I found everything I was running from
Was what I was looking for all along