My Name Is Silence

Spelling my name in analogies

Pulling your eyelids down

Over my silence, over your blind eyes

Building myself an anomaly

Building with breaking hands

Shutting the noise out

Driving the nails in

I have no name

My name is silence

I have no pain

Who would save you now?

Pulling myself through the windowpane

Kissing the broken glass

Drawing the walls close

Stitching my mouth shut

Resting my head on the demagogue

Leaning on burning sound

Tearing my words up

Putting my work down

I have no name

My name is silence

I have no pain

Who would save you now?

I have no use for your bloodless compassion

Don't waste your indulgence on me

Nodding my head with the grinning ghost,

loving the lucid flow

Too many mercies

Too many stale hopes

Turn my face to avoid your eyes,

swearing to let it go

Too many failures

Too many favours

I have no name

My name is silence

I have no pain

Who would save you now?