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DEADLY SILENCE
BY JOHNNY TAI – SMILE TIGER OR JST
April 17, 2001
Edited: Wednesday, November 07, 2001

STORY BEHIND THE POEM
A demonstration of a common phobia that I’ve personally been suffering for a long time…

Softly and slowly, the night crawls in.
Darkness blinds the eagle’s dream.
Creepy shadows hang from the ceiling-
The tightening grasp allows no feeling…
When the sword points skywards, and I
Close my eyes:
He arrives in experience,
The deadly SILENCE.

A bone-white mare charges towards me;
Cold as steel, with bloody heat…
Beneath the reflection of a pale moon,
She shrieks long, and beats her hoofs…
And my soul falls, smoothly into hell,
Into exile—
On to the trident
Of the deadly SILENCE.

Within the heaviness I smell,
Hatred and love’s conjured spells…
I’m awake, but arms won’t move;
I just die here in my somber mood…
Suddenly, my eyes meet those of the dimming shadow’s—
They’re so cold!
It’s the expression
Of the deadly SILENCE.

You can laugh all you want,
Just wait until you have to confront…
The touch of Silence comes in the air,
Sending chill into my bones and hairs…
I draw my blade and stab at the empty spaces—
The fatal faces…
It’s the violence
Of the Deadly SILENCE.

Somewhere in me, I secretly believe,
Terrors can make my life complete…
Make me see something within nothing;
Make me aware while I’m sleeping…
When dawn arrives, the shadow will be dismissed
With the mist—
And ends the burden
Of the deadly SILENCE.

AUTHOR’S WORDS:
Have you ever wake up at night and feel threatened?
Well, this is what the poem is really trying to get through.
If we can take a different approach toward the fear, maybe the fear won’t seem so threatening…

Silence comes when we're alone, silence goes when we're home.