Cold silence greets the night,
Gives voice to thoughts unspoken.
Excuses fail to penetrate 
Her heart, so callously broken.

Within, the quiet echoes dim,
Removed for time and place.
From long ago, a happier time,
She gazes upon his face.

So sure of love's eternity,
Was that child of naïveté,
So lost in passion's heady maze,
She could not see this day.

Chill tears now burn awareness
Of illusions, shattered dreams...
The stoic front of control he sees
Hides the truth....
             inside, the silence screams.