love muted

a poem

Photo by Eden Kefale

unmute
the sounds
of my agony

place them 
at full volume

do not
recoil from 
my fragmented voice

its pleading 
anchors your burden

and your silence 
buckles under 
the weight of truth

did I arrive
too loudly?

chaining my anguish
to you

my love continues 
to bleed 
at full volume

the sound swells,
a relentless alarm
against your locked door

what cruel distortion—
a love, 
left muted