When Silence Screamed

Royal Club for Literature and Peace 

When Silence Screamed

Sanjay Singh

When Silence Screamed

It began like cracks on a mirror—

small, invisible at first,

but each word left unsaid

spread the fracture wider.

Our voices, once rivers,

now trickled into dry beds of suspicion.

Trust, fragile as glass,

slipped through our hands

and shattered into shards

we were too tired to gather.

Our priorities—

like trains rushing in opposite directions—

pulled us farther,

until the distance between us

was longer than the horizon.

So I folded into myself,

a turtle hiding inside its shell,

thinking silence would protect me.

But silence was not gentle.

It was thunder behind closed doors,

waves crashing inside a hollow cave,

a scream without a voice—

louder than any argument

we ever had.

And in that echo,

I heard the truth:

it was not your absence

but my unspoken words

that built this wall of fire and ice

between us.

Sanjay Singh

documentation:Waffaa Badarneh