Sleepy silence

Creeps up on my skin;

 It goes through my veins.

Runs with the red cells

Of my blood

 This is silence;

Deadly afternoon silence.

The frenzied heat conspires,

With the wilted trees

Taunts homesick birds;

It conspires

In whispers

Of faithless love.

To create chaos

Out of silenced beasts

To breathe life,

Into faded ghosts.

 The heat conspires…

With the mud-cracked earth

 Silencing the world

Into sleeplessness of insanity.