Silent Rides

There is no peace in my silence

Growing tension lies quiet

Festering deadly, unbearable thoughts

Thoughts of abandonment reverberate

Anxiety thickens the air, a serpent

Choking you and I in its grip

There is no peace in the silence

But words will not come

They will not ease the deadly grip

Afraid to leave my lips

And so we gasp for air in the silence

Dying each time on our silent rides