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“A Map of Silence” is a haunting descent into the quiet machinery of authoritarianism—where tyranny arrives not with fanfare, but with smiles, silence, and erasure. Through stark, unravelled imagery, it shows how ordinary lives vanish into compliance: neighbours disappear, history rewrites itself, and the meaning of ‘we’ is worn away. The poem doesn’t shout—it listens to the cracks beneath the floorboards, the muting of dissent, the weaponisation of calm. Yet even as the last voices falter, a choice remains. In its final verses, a single voice—a breath, a step, a hand unraised—offers the chance to redraw the map, if only we dare move. This is not just a warning. It’s a reckoning. Comparable works include 1984 – George Orwell; Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury; The Man in the High Castle – Amazon Prime – Frank Spotnitz (2015–2019)