Pure Silence
I turned and watched
the door close.
A shiver ran up my spine.
What had just
happened? Why did it happen?
The door clicked shut releasing the
suspense which had reached its crescendo.
The only thing I heard
was the beating of my heart which was no longer whole.
I sunk,
exhausted, to the floor, feeling the cold, wooden boards underneath
my bare frail legs. My whole being felt alien. Not understanding who
I was. Or what I
was.
Everything seemed to have turned to ice, the only heat coming
from teh pain in my aching chest.
Breathing deeply I pulled myself
up into a sitting position trying to feel teh blood rush to my aid.
I felt dead, alone,
unneeded. My whole world had come crashing down on me in less than a
minute, the weight forcing me to scream out in shattering agony.
I
felt weightless, in a world of darkness and uncertainty.
Why? Why?
Why!
Clenching my hands, I threw myself against the wall, tears of
pain, and anger poured out of me.
Life wasn't fair.
Life was
a living death.
Like hell.
Where blood and war entwined it's
razor sharp talons, reaching for its innocent prey's flesh.
"Hu,
I'm never gonna eat meat again" I laughed, hearing sarcasm sink
into the supposedly happy sound.
"I used to embrace myself in
love" I gasped, feeling like every word was a dagger sticking ever
so deeper into my heart.
Shaking I held my hand out, blood
trickled down it towards my wrist, my tiny wrist, my ever so dainty
wrist.
I stuck the wall, more blood came, I strucked the wall
again, and again more blood came rushing out.
No tears came
now.
Just the ever so cold feeling of nothingness reach its cruel
hands into my already broken heart.
"He was my salvation, my
everything"
Memories of his face
filled my mind with happiness.
The way he smiled. His bright blue
eyes, the loving gaze he gave me before he left.
"No, he's not
gone, he's not gone" uncontrollable sobs followed. But however
much I told myself he wasn't gone, I knew as much as the people who
saw the terrible moment, the terrible moment he died. That he was
dead.
Dead in the land of war, in Afghanistan.
My beloved.
Alone.
My beloved gone, forever.
Silence.
