English Descriptive Essay

Description                                                                                                                                       Lewis Stevens

The silence. The silence was more deafening than the noise. The noise that by passers wished to go away but when silence came it sounded strange and unnatural. Litter flew around the street filling the sky with a tornado of packets and wrappers, but people did not care for the litter because they were in awe of the silence, they almost wished for the noise to come back because the power of the silence was more powerful and unnerving than the whole day of noise. This silence made people think about the cause more than the noise of the cause itself. A shadow wave stronger than the tsunami itself. The silence was there secret weapon that they didn’t know they had yet it was there strongest weapon. A day of noise for nothing but creating the true recognition of silence, the moat empowering thing, the loudest thing, that has never made a noise.

The man was stood. He had been stood for what seemed to him an eternity yet in reality was only a few minutes. He had been building up a wall of nerves, he couldn’t help it, he was usually a confident person but now he felt like he was navigating the edge of a cliff blindfolded, he had never felt so nervous. His wall was towering above him, enclosing him, cutting of his will to stay standing. He wanted to run. He was scared.

A woman arrived. She stood only meters to his left and began constructing a sign. A sign of protest. The same sign that he was carrying. At that moment, a brick landed at his feet. The another and another. He realised that more people were arriving, simultaneously to his wall collapsing. He was the first link in the chain, useless on its own but strong when connected. He had forgotten about nerves. He had forgotten about everything but the will of an army, his army. In minutes, there were hundreds. After ten there were thousands. They were like a river; held up by a dam, waiting for it to be released. The man was no longer a man; he was more he was the leader; he was the strongest; he was immortal and then he released the dam.