Cave Of Silence

Written in collaboration with Amelia Heintzelman and Sacha Vega

So we’re wearing green today

And we’re three people today

It’s very serious

Something is happening with vision

And silence

In a cave

Of silence

Sweetie, your mom and I met in a cave of silence.

We were only 13 years old

And it was completely silent

I remember thinking, “She has such beautiful eyes,”

But I didn’t because even thinking was silent

This is a cave where everything is silent

We were silent 

We were the cave

And we fell in love.

Then we found a beautiful rent-controlled apartment just 20 convenient minutes from the cave

And you were born

But you were blind

You were born in the cave

And you are blind.

You are a cave of silence

And you are blind

You were born in a cave of silence 

And we were in love

We raised you as the cave we always knew you to be

You are silence

You’re living dangerously these days

You lack cave

You live an unexamined life

You’re noisy, you never shut up

You’re always running away

You forget you were born in a cave of silence

Make the fucking commute back home

Shut up and go home

Come back to where we fell in love

Stop running away all the time

We love you in this cave

You look so beautiful in your cute silent outfit

I’m sorry

We could’ve given you more silence when you were growing up

I thought maybe you would learn about it at school 

But you never wanted to go

You always forgot your lunch

You were always falling off structures and running away

You treasured the wrong terrors 

You were born in a cave of silence

One day, you woke up and you wanted piano lessons

You also had diarrhea that day

And the divorce papers got wet