It is so quiet here.
Normally the voices...they can be so loud, so shrill.

It is in this quiet that I realize so many things about life.
Everything I have ever wanted or desired, none of that matters.
Life showed me what kind of life I could have had.
And then took it all away.
All my happiness, all my joy....only to replaced my failure and resentment.
You may see me smile, but know that I am a shell of person adrift on the wind.