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Sans Solitude

Tom (WordWulf) Sterner

I have grown so used to their voices
I find myself startled by silence
whose true voice I have always
learned never to ignore

I don’t know what they’re saying
but the tone of their laughter
visits my ears ecstatic
and warm, a good song sung

In these moments together
when the silence I seek is expelled
I have time to wander alone and wonder
if silence is a greed for spaces

I have grown so used to their voices
they fill the still air around me
I ignore my hunger for silence
and speculate: are they real, the voices
or an indication of loneliness
a dependence upon memory
an inclination toward the down



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