A Sounding Silence

Malaïka
1 min readSep 17, 2022
Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay

I got used to the silence,

Used to the lack of sound that was filled with your love.

I had carved an oasis in my heart for you to abide in,

But now it is empty,

So the birds stopped singing,

So the lakes there are now still,

No waves caress their surface.

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