I fill my space with music, with books, with distractions. I drown out the quiet, pretend the emptiness isn't there. But the silence always finds a way back in—settling into the empty spaces I can’t fill.

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I fill my space with music, with books, with distractions. I drown out the quiet, pretend the emptiness isn't there. But the silence always finds a way back in—settling into the empty spaces I can’t fill.
I reach out, but there’s nothing to hold onto. The air feels too thin, my lungs too weak. It’s like drowning without water—like suffocating in plain sight, and no one even notices.
Hope used to be a fire inside me. Now, it’s just dying embers, choking on ash. Every day, the glow fades a little more, but I can’t tell if I should fight to keep it alive or let it burn out completely. Maybe it’s already gone—maybe I just haven’t noticed yet.
I dissolve in the silence, piece by piece, until I am little more than a whisper in the wind. No one notices. No one stops to ask where I’ve gone. Perhaps I was never really here to begin with—just a flicker, a fleeting echo of something that once mattered.
My words dissolve before they reach anyone. I speak, but no one listens. I whisper, but the silence swallows me whole. Maybe if I stop talking completely, the world won’t even notice I’m gone.
The more I speak, the more my words dissolve into nothing. I could scream, but it would still feel like silence. Maybe if I stop talking altogether, the world will finally prove me right—no one was really listening.
I stretch my lips into a smile, wide and convincing. They see the grin, the teeth, the performance. But they never look into my eyes—if they did, they’d know the mask is cracking.
I’m fine.’ I’ve said it so many times, it’s lost all meaning. A rehearsed line, a reflex, a shield. But in the silence, when no one is asking, I wonder if I even remember what ‘fine’ is supposed to feel like.
Surrounded, yet unseen. Voices fill the air, conversations swirl around me, but none of them reach me. I could vanish, and the world would keep moving—like I was never here at all.
There’s an emptiness inside me, like something was carved out and never replaced. I can’t tell if I lost it, if it was stolen, or if it was never there to begin with. All I know is that I feel the absence more than I ever felt the presence.
I used to have dreams, vivid and alive. Now they’re ghosts, faint echoes of something I can barely remember. I don’t know when they started slipping away—only that I woke up one day and they were gone, leaving nothing behind but the hollow ache of what could have been.
I stare at my own reflection, but all I see is exhaustion. Not just in my eyes, but in my bones, in my soul. No amount of sleep can fix what’s missing.
Once, I had dreams—big, reckless, full of color. Now, they feel like words in a book that’s been burned. Faded, unreadable, lost to time. I don’t even remember what they were, only that I used to believe in them.
This ache has settled into my bones, familiar and unshakable. Some days, I barely notice it. Other days, it’s all I can feel. But it’s always there, woven into me, a quiet reminder of something I lost—maybe something I never even had.
I poured everything out—every thought, every piece of myself—until there was nothing left. Now I’m running on empty, hollow and dry, pretending I still have something to give. But the cracks are showing, and I don’t think I can hide it much longer.
There’s a kind of pain that doesn’t scream. It just lingers, sits in the quiet, settles into your bones. And no matter how still you stay, it never leaves.
No sobs, no gasps, no sound—just the weight of unshed tears pressing against my chest. I wonder if silence can drown you, if pain can pool behind your ribs until you finally break.