The sound of your foot steps
The sound of the car door closing
The sound of the fan whizzing
Mean nothing to us.
They are just noise.
Waiting to filled with meaning.
As Silences scare us.
We need to feed our Silences
with music, television, phone calls, messages, people etc.
What are we so afraid of
Why can't we bear ourselves that we need to fill our Silences.
As we step out of the car we look for our earphones
As we wake up we look for our phones.
Before we go to sleep we look at our phones.
Why are we afraid of silence
Are we afraid we may hear something we might not like.
Why those endless phone calls without any substance
Why those million text messages the take out of which nothing
Why do we run away from our selves and hide among strangers
Knowing the truth and shallowness of a relation we hold onto it because we are afraid of the silence
Binge watching all those shows and movies to numb our mind
Only intoxicants are not a way to hide from ourselves
From the truth
The songs you play on loop
The friends you meet in cafes
The number you dial everytime you find yourself alone
Is that your life
Is it moving ahead
Or we are living in a loop
Falling in love with the same kind of people
Doing the same work you hate doing
Watching nonsense not knowing why you watch it
All to avoid hearing the silence
I still don't understand why
But I won't wait to be ghosted by someone
Or my broadband to disconnect
My phone to break
To hear the silence
To look within
Though scary I'll hear myself out
Though terrifying I'll try to be my friend
Though as intense as it may sound
I'll welcome the Silences
I'll talk to myself again
When you start hearing the silence
The noise makes sense
The calls, the messages, the shows
Everything makes sense
People make sense
You make sense to people
Know yourself before trying to know others.
Because as Jim said, "Who do you know even if they are sitting in front of you".
You can only know yourself truly
But that scares us then why are you interested in knowing someone else which you can never truly.
Know yourself & you know the world.
