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I’m here.
Am I here with someone?
Am I here alone?
I’m here alone.
Just me and my thoughts.
In the quiet I can think.
Sort the bad from the good.
Find the answers I seek through the clarity of silence.
The words bounce off the walls
Cold and dark.
Yet there is a slight comfort when I am here within them
My voice in my mind speaks what I know.
The facts are laid out.
The lies seep in.
Who’s voice am I hearing?
One not my own.
It sounds familiar, yet so distant.
He’s speaking to me
Feeding me lies
The things he names are things I’d rather not claim
It’s not true.
It’s the truth.
Is it the truth?
Might he be right?
His voice sounds so calm, no way can he be wrong.
But something chimes in
Trust not in him.
My voice screams
Or maybe it cries
I do not know what’s true and what’s lies.
His voice fades out.
Now it’s just my own.
At least that’s what I wish to believe.
Now here in the silence I sit alone.
Scared by the quiet and the unknown.