The troubling Silence

It's quiet now.

Way too quiet.

This's not right,

Something's lacking.

Walking into

every room of the house

now makes me feel like

I'm sinking

into deeper and deeper

thoughts of despair.

The quiet silence,

I once

longed for is now

fully available

But when my

family isn't here,

in times like these

when I feel lonely...

alone, too

I dearly miss them.

It then reaches

my understanding

the phrase

"No man is an

island."

So now I begin to

grasp the fact that

I need them.