What is silence?
Silence is a life devoid of love or a world filled with love?
Silence is a life filled with calls or a world devoid of calls?
Silence is it the prophetic failure on me or echoes of destined success?
Silence is the regretted past or rejected future?
Silence is it a world without my stories or a world filled with it?
Is that silence?
Have you ever heard and tasted silence?
Have you ever been hurt by silence?
What is silence?
Silence is a thousand words I say without sounds
Silence is the love I convey with my eyes amidst hate
It is the walk I take in depths of words that eyes cannot read
It is the sweet quietness that embodies my bitterness
Is that silence?
Silence is a lover, a jealous one
Silence is that spirit I nursed in my heart
It is the words that stood in my eyes
Amidst this defying noise of humanity
It is the anger that dies in me
What is silence?
It is the hurt that travels through me
The words that lie in my heart for ages
The smiles you see is silences
Is that silence?
By Onykachi Onuoha
About Onyekachi
Onyekachi Peter Onuoha is a Master Student of the University of Lagos and holds a Bachelor of Arts in English and Literary Studies University of Calabar, Calabar. Idara (Kraft , 2012), Moonlight Lady (Kraft ,2012), My Father Lied (Kraft,2013), The Scream of Ola (Kraft ,2013), The Fears of Mama (Kraft ,2014) , Ijeuwa( Author house UK, 2015), The Drops of Fascination and other Poems, The Heresy of Gossip and Aluta Struggle are some of his works. Most of his works are studied in Nigerian Universities. Twitter http://www.twitter.com/Onyipoet
