Echoes Of Silence Poem by Stella Sisanda Qishi

For Koketso Marishane

they knock my heart to numbness,
echoes so cold and so inevitably strong.
they bang the doors of my shattered heart,
echoes so bleak and so inevitably gruff.
they crash the walls of my poor heart,
echoes so baleful and so inevitably loud.
they push my heart back and forth,
echoes so cold and so inevitably cold.
they shrink the appreciation I always longed for,
echoes brush it off, leaving no stones unturned.
they tear my bliss into shredds,
echoes so audible and so inevitably baleful.
they fill my ears with the supersonic sound,
echoes so gruff and so inevtably bleak.
they steal words out of my mouth
and leave me empty-headed and completely powerless.
echoes of your silence obliterate me...