Silences.

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.