They say that silence speaks volumes
Because it fills up a room,
Fills up your lungs
Drowns you
Suffocating.
They say that silence speaks volumes
Because the loudest conversations
Are what you don’t say
Can’t say
Deafening.
They should speak of silence and vacuums
An empty space, an absence of matter
Filled with things
You don’t mean
Nothing.
They should speak of silence and vacuums
Enabling oppressors to seem louder
Because you were absent
Even when
It mattered.
