Thursday, April 15, 2010

The Empty Silence of Loneliness

When you are surrounded by silence, you hear everything.

Another person's joy,
The laughter of life passing you by.

The whisper of "What if's" and "If only's".

The ticking of a clock,
Distant yet inescapable.

Silence is in fact no silence at all.
It is a cacophony of all the sounds you have no part of.

It is an unquenchable thirst,
A longing to be filled,
A hunger yearning to be satisfied.

It is the empty space through which envy enters the heart and makes a home.

For mine is not the silence of the absence of sound.
It is far more sinister than that.

Mine is the silence of the lonely soul.

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