Vastly Silent

Silence appears

To not be my friend.

As it presses in from every side,

Attempting to suffocate me

With its loneliness.

There is no one around,

No one to make a single noise.

So I stand

In the vast emptiness,

Hugging this silence against my eardrums,

Wishing for freedom from its grasp.

For this nothing around me

Makes me wonder.

Am I nothing more

Than the silence itself?

For I am truly alone.