Hey allison thats an awesome poem i like it but how do you come up with theses kinds of poems and it just flows through

I think you expressed your point and then kind of expounded on it; unless it has personal meaning I'd cut down wat you were sayign a lil. Also, articles like the and a could be removed through out to tighten it up. Silence is repeated far too often, imo. but you've set up some good devices; i very much like the beginning stanza but think if you broke it into sections, it would maximize the effect: ie:

Silence
A deafening reality
that even the guns
of moments before
cannot match.

A deadly nothingness
that screams to be heard.
Life has been split two ways
that of the dead and gone

and then those that
are barely alive.
Life means the most
during the silence.

And here's a section where those articles could be trimmer.. very ice piece th0, just needs some plishing.