The Quiet

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Sit.
Stare.
Wait.
Hope.
Nothing.

Blank walls.
No neighbors.
No world - active
or even existent -
beyond these blank canvases.

Do I dare listen
to the
pounding
of my heart, or the
ringing in my ears?

Do I succumb
to the
voices
that whisper from the walls
and fuel my expanding emptiness?

No door.
No window.
I am alone.
But will somebody -
anybody - break these walls and save me?

~Annie

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