Falling Up

silent

Its so quiet up here.

Not even the tiniest hint of a breath will escape your lips here and no words will stumble from your tounge to grace the heavy air.

Its so quiet here.

Your sound will be nothing but a muffled idea lost in the thick silence that surrounds you. Your feet will make no noise as you shuffle along the empty streets and your breath will be nothing but a lost sound among the millions of other silenced gasps.

But you won't be alone.

Every one of us have learned to keep our breaths quiet and our footsteps light to avoid the booming sounds that sound so foreign to our ears after the heavy silence. We learned to not let our words greet the the cool oxygen, but to stay stuck in our throats.

Its so silent here.

And your silence will be added to the haunting symphony of nothingness to accompany all the other nonexistent sounds that refuse to fall from the slopes of our lips.

Your silence is ours now.