My soul has been stolen
Replaced by a stone
My thoughts now are dead ones
My voices drone

Can't bury the living
For they're upright still
Don't stone the fallen
They're safe until

Voices carry
And feelings betray
There's nothing left
But a vacant day

And an empty night
In a hollow tube
Echoing down
The long silence to you

Patti Masterman

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/long-silence-to-you/