Noise

Noise.
Noise.
Noise.

Lately, there has been nothing but noise
In the train, I could hear everything from miles away
I studied the people around me
but no one else was aware of the chaos
It sounded like giants in a riot
They were burning the houses down,
destroying the peace in all the places they could find
I got off my stop and the noise grew louder
The city was slowly roaring back to life
And now,
I couldn’t even hear myself think

I found solace in a room when I was alone
and a bit too early for class
But I could still hear it in the halls, in the classrooms, and even in the other buildings twelve hundred feet away
I didn’t know sound could be so suffocating
I could feel static crawling under my skin,
weighing me down until I could no longer move;
My mind is the only thing functioning according to free will
I wanted to make this stop
Has it always been like this?
Someone opened the door,
his footsteps too familiar,
made his way to the seat next to mine

Silence.