companions

Solitude, the ball and chain of my heart. You have kept me through this season of life, kept me. I resented you, even hated you at times, your burden seemed so hard to bear. But now I look at your face wondering if I’ve learned from you what I’ve always known I needed.

Silence. I never knew your name before this captivity, before being named with this city. Now you are my intimate companion. You are the way I express so much of my heart. You say the things I cannot say, through your vast vocabulary of…nothing.