The Sound of Silence

For me, silence will rarely go unnoticed

I must always fill it

Always

Whether it be with music

My own voice

Or just mindless noise hidden in the background

To be in silence is to be alone with my thoughts

It is to fall down a deep, dark hole

That I must always struggle to climb back out of

If I dwell in the silence for too long

For silence makes me completely and utterly alone

It is to feel a deep absence that I must fill

If I fail then I suffer

Facing the demons I have locked away

Back in the far recesses of my mind

To live in silence is to let those demons out of their cells

Letting them roam freely for however long I let them

So I must fight off the silence as best as I can

Fearing that one day it will overtake me