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Silence: Fear of the Sound that Never Came
Seven years ago
my life was a riot,
Scattered and deafening.
The roar of possibility
was so loud
I hardly heard it.
I was too busy to notice,
looking for silence.
Six years ago
the melee stopped.
The cacophony that
I had lived with
for so long
stilled, replaced by
the pulse of my own heart.
Five years ago
I was warned
that my heart may stop.
It might be
torn away from me.
I was taught to fear silence.