All I Hear Is Quiet Poem by Robin Bennett

We need to talk and-
it destroys me to say
you're killing me inside
everything you say
makes me recoil
in fear-

It's time to part ways-
sleeping in the raging
Atlantic-
the same fury
greets me here

Only in her
ice cold
waters
I am alone and all I hear is quiet.

I die listening to your-
frenzied rage
day after dark day
I'm dying slowly-
your cancer
is eating my
mind and self esteem

You have been killing
me slowly with
each passion filled
torment
I gasp for one
sane thought
Each day I sink deeper
into the living
darkness or
your ire

I'm done. Living is now death for me. All I hear is quiet.