The Gift of SILENCE
It is persistent as acid
that will eat away at your falsehoods, one-by-one.
If someone cannot be alone
for extended periods of time
they cannot look in the mirror of their conscious
for long.
They are running from an inescapable truth,
hiding from making an apology
to someone else or to themselves,
for silence will not block your freedom unless you have not looked
deeply into the mirror.
Conversely,
if you have learned to tolerate silence
for a year, two years, or 5 years
as I have-devastating silence
that spells out the whole truth,
you will never have to run from anything again.
Nor will you deny your mistakes and failures.
You won't glory in them, minimize them, or laugh them off.
But because you have examined them in such minute detail,
the sorrow and forgiveness have become a part of you.
You become a walking, talking, real person.
Not a vain image of perfection, and not what others
wished you were.
No, you have become fully and unapologetically yourself-
who you were meant to be.
And this is the real gift of silence,
that you will never have to run from yourself again,
but will run towards your beautiful, broken self to rescue it.
Silence reveals whatever is there,
be it cowardess and fear, or a true bravery
you never imagined existed within you.
Like a mirror, silence only shows what is there in its entirety.
Do not spurn silence, for it wants to tell you your whole devastating, miraculous story.
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