2024

            "a world of silence"

      Upon waking the first thing I see,
      Will be a face
      And the words coming out of my mouth will be
      “Where am I?”.
      No one will know how to answer,
      Because I am not anywhere,
      I have stopped existing.

      “And who the fuck is she?”
      Pointing at the mirror I recognise my own face.
      But I will not know who I am,
      I have forgotten the words.

      No one answers,
      Because they have forgotten.
      The things we use to describe anything
      Have become obsolete.
      I have entered a world of silence,
      Where no words can be spoken, written or read.

      We will be mute,
      Except for me.
      But I am not there.
      How do these words form in my head,
      Yet fail to leave my mouth?
      Even when they do,
      They seem wrong and not the ones I intended to use.
      I have lost choice
      And freedom of speech.