Deafened darkness can't fathom your footsteps along the water.
You sneak in from behind and strangle its essence.
Immediately, you feel a spider on your neck trying to shatter
All sound but you know you aren't built of silence.
Like a bird letting go of its feathers in mid-flight,
You toughen the web against your body as it breaks.
You look at the distant light desperately as it shakes...