Golden goodbye

A suffocating silence lay between them that night, demanding to be heard. It spoke of the absolute incompleteness of their equation, displaying the worthlessness of words by exhibiting their inability to fill the void between them. It laughed in their faces, mocking the very fabric of their relationship. And it teased them with the simplest of solutions, whispering illusions of being broken so beautiful things may be built. It begged them to be shattered, to be completely destroyed so that the answer may become clear. While it seethed and quivered with growing rage at the weakness they so easily succumbed to. It even threatened to choke their adolescent feelings, hoping that fear would give them strength.

Yet they foolishly fed the silence that was drowning them. Letting it surround them like a cage, as it tempted them with an unlocked door. All it asked for was words to be uttered and it would willingly disappear, taking unfulfilled promises and the hopelessness of dreams with it. But they fought their muted war, each waiting for the other to muster the courage that would set them free. They waited in vain for the hand of fate to lay the path before them, hoping that a passing miracle would throw the solution in their faces. Until the silence grew so overpowering it endangered the very balance it was born to keep. And it was finally unmade by the innocent click of her bedroom door closing behind him for the last time.