Excerpt for Silent Screams by Toni Sim, available in its entirety at Smashwords
Black
Completely desolate
Silence
Not one sound
Laughter has died with the wind
Color has faded with the seasons
There are gloomy faces surrounding you now
Miserable and selfish
You hadn’t thought of them
You hadn’t thought of me
So dark
It might as well be night
Where is the sun?
Where is the light?
Did it die too?
Like a bird I long to fly away
Weighed down by the scorching ice
Keeping me
Trapped
Nowhere to run