Silence

Written August 30th, 2023

Silence is strange.

Some people find it comforting, to find such stillness in sound.

To me, silence is stillness of life. Even in nature there is no true silence -- always birds or wind or brushing of movement against leaves.

People find mutual silence peaceful. I find it unnerving. I am alive and vibrant and so are you but here we sit. In silence.

Nothing to say?

I will say anything, but have been met with silence too many times to risk attempting to bridge it.

To shatter the barrier between us and interact to remind us both that we are real.

I want to be real, to be impactful on you as you are to me. I cannot guess at how I impact you if I do not see it, hear it, experience it.

A world of silence is one that is dead. It might be more apt to call it a state of non-living.

I sit in silence and wish to live.