Quiet Beings

The world went quiet. Too quiet.

Quiet, but not silent, no, you could feel the sound of what was coming, only at the last moment did it escape. It did this continuously on an endless loop. Fading in and out. Faintly would it creep up and at any given time, quiet rose through. They covered my mouth and motioned for me to stay still. Speak, shout, or scream, nothing happened. No one understood why we were muted, my breath was audible, anything else had no sound. When the sound returned, I called for help, I felt my voice except they couldn't hear me. I couldn't hear them. It rang in my ears until deafness settled into them. Slowly, light vanished from my eyes, smell from my nose, the touch in my fingertips, and then I couldn't eat. I had forgotten the world, the last I remembered it was quiet, mine went quiet too, too quiet, quiet turned into silence, silence made me go deaf, deaf brought me to blind, and now I'm numb. I know now, death shouldn't be long away, it comes and goes, in and out.