| By Anthony Muchoki The silence Louder Than Hiroshima bomb Kept 50 years Festering in the hollows Of his chest Where words should have lived But died before birth Fake peace A painted smile over Rotting foundations The world saw calm But inside— A storm swallowed whole Eating him from within The burden of silence Heavy as gravestone Pressed against his ribs Each unspoken truth A weight added Year after year Until breathing became An act of defiance Against all he could not say Broke his lungs Shattered them like glass Under the hammer Of swallowed screams | The words he’d buried Rose up as poison Demanding their due The bats Merciless Circled overhead Witnesses to his collapse Laughed Their shrill voices The only sound In his soundless world Mocking the man Who thought silence was strength He fell down In silence Knees hitting earth Without a cry Without a gasp Without the release Of finally letting go Died in great pain In silence The agony of Everything unsaid Echoing in the void Between his last heartbeat And his first eternal moment In silence Louder Than Hiroshima bomb A detonation That no one heard But everyone felt In the empty space Where a voice Should have been |
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