Too Heavy To Carry

Words piled up

Between us

Surrounding us

Making us trip, tumble, and fall

Into an abyss so deep

There was no way to go back.

Unspoken, yet unnerving

They hovered around

Pricking as a thorny embrace

When our hands touched

And eyes refused to meet.

Whispers in the dark night

Murmurs in the daylight

Secrets that bring a terrifying fight

None made past the sealed lips

Even as a hell threatened to break loose.

Days drained into weeks

Weeks dragged into months

Months seemed to multiply

As the embrace turned cold

We wished in vain, for the void to go away.