Man-Made

Silence is not real,

Not in the terms of actual sound waves.

Not to me.

Silence is something else entirely.

It is when you are not speaking to someone,

When you see one another and you pretend that the other

Does not exist.

 

Silence is not just in speaking,

It is in actions and thoughts and-

It is more than we are aware of,

Because nothing is so simple in life.

Life is not meant to be simple,

It is meant to be complex and full of color.

Silence and sound are much the same.

 

There is sound

As long as there is something to be the medium.

There is no real silence,

But that does not mean that we cannot try to create it.

Silence is not natural,

It is completely man-made.

Silence, real silence, is only found among men.

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Written partially because of the weekly challenge from Daily Post (https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/the-sound-of-silence/) and partially because once I’d gotten the thought of silence in my head I had to keep writing this.

Also, been spending the day mostly with vertigo that shifts the world to the left more than it should and concentrating on writing anything else failed at every turn.