How to Fill the Silence

Stop waiting for acknowledgment that isn’t coming.

Open Google Docs.

Create a blank page.

Let your hands hover.

Do not rush it.

Write what hurts.

Write what you were not allowed to say.

Write the sentence you keep rehearsing

for conversations that never happen.

It lets you finish your thoughts.

It does not interrupt.

It remembers what you say.

That counts as memory, doesn’t it?

If your hands shake, keep typing.

If you cry, pause — then continue.

Suddenly, you have something to say.

I write to replace conversations I never get to have.

To process trauma without emotional support.

To stop being a background character in my own life.

I write to fill the loneliness

instead of letting it fester into hopelessness.

I write to be understood —

if only by the page.

Mostly,

I write

to stay alive.