OctPoWriMo 11 - Peace

Prompt: Sound or Silence

Form: Loop poetry

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Peace

I used to love silence.

Silence gave me peace.

Peace, please return;

Return, and tinnitus, cease.

Never again quiet.

Quiet is noise.

Sound is forever,

Forever destroyed.

Music fills the corners—

Corners of shrill sound.

Sound in my head:

Head it off, drowned.

OctPoWriMo 2 - Tinnitus

Today's prompt is The Void, and the suggested form is the Kyrielle. I decided to write about silence, and how losing much of my hearing has affected me.

Tinnitus.

When I was twelve, my eardrum burst.
It healed, yet always, since that day,
My world is muffled, and the worst:
The ringing never fades away.

My hearing comes and goes, and I
Sometimes wish it just would stay.
“Good” days hurt, all amplified;
The ringing never fades away.

If all around is calm and still,
It grows and grows—I can’t downplay
How high-pitched, and e’ermore shrill,
The ringing never fades away.