The Loudest Silence

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Someone once told me that I listened to music too much. I told them that the quiet was violent. And that the silence kills me. The absence of sound makes me think, and when I think, I feel awake, and when I feel awake, I have hope, and having hope is an enormous mistake. The sound floods my lungs and mind to force out the dusts and cobwebs of my insides in a final exhalation. It floats over my lips and into the frozen air. But some days, when the silence can't be quieted by even the loudest of songs, I feel crimson. That last day, with it's final pull of inertia, the crimson spilled over my mind and overflowed onto my skin.

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