The Weight of Silence

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23/08/2025

There are days when silence sits heavy.
It is not peace.
It is a reminder.
Of words left unsaid.
Of chances lost.
I often think—silence is not empty, it is crowded.
Crowded with memory.
With fear.
With hesitation.
And sometimes, with truth.
We live in a noisy world.
Voices everywhere.
Screens, slogans, debates.
But in the middle of all that, silence is sharper.
It cuts deeper.
It exposes what we try to hide.
I have carried silence like baggage.
But I also know—it teaches.
It shows me the difference between quiet and absence.
Quiet heals.
Absence hurts.
Today I choose quiet.
Not absence.

Rajat Chandra Sarmah

Guwahati, Assam , India

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