Silence in a Crowd
The author wants to accept the fact that death is a natural phenomenon for whoever has come to life.
There it was the crowd
waiting for me to cremate my mom
And I was a child hoping to not get lost
he couldn't help
but hear the melody
at first, everything just stopped in time
sand frozen in air
just like the tears that my eye held
My hands just couldn't move
All I heard was silence
The crowd was frozen too
someone just lost a wife
while someone lost their daughter
some were crying for the loss
while some reciprocated the very emotion
I felt numb
as if there was nothing I could do anymore
Then I heard it
the silence that sang
" monster don't come tonight
my child needs a good night slumber,
Mrs don't come tonight
my child needs a peaceful slumber"
It was her
my mum,
I held one hand close to her photo
and laid another on the ground
And closed my eyes,
when she finished I opened my eyes
to a thousand pair of them staring at me
brought back to the harsh reality
But a smile on my teary face,
I let go of the picture in my hand
and leave the place
with a numbness again.