The phone rang. I answered. No voices, no sounds, the silence creeped me out. It was empty, no silence like that exists in real nature. I hung up, thought it was a cut off line, some eletrical mistake. The phone rang again.
I let it rang some time and picked up. Again the silence. The scary silence wanted to tell me something which I did not understand, I heard something, but it was too far of an echo. "Is this a joke?" I asked serene, but nothing answered. "It's not funny, I am getting scared", I said and then I heard someone breathing, a melanchonic breath. It was not intimidating, but I didn't understand. It was the sound of hope, the one that is leaving you behind. "Please dont get scared" I then heard "It's the silence of your life". I paused, it paused. "Uh?!" I moaned, "since when silence has a voice? it's a joke I am sure". A grin. "I wanted to hear your voice, I got told you want to get rid of me, I needed to know why" "Because I dont want silence in my life". "But, how will you live without me?!" It asked in a serious tone. "I am the one that protects you from pain, I am the secret story you haven't told nobody, I kept your secrets and watched you without judging you. I will tell you something. You need to be happy if you can hear the silence in your life, because when you hear silence you know you're alive! Many think that is the noise to differentiate life from death, but it is the appreciation of the latter being part of your life that will remind you to be alive. If you live a world full of noises and never pay attention to the silence in your life, then you're dead already because I am gone with your body and mind. Then you'll only hear the chears, the sadness and the tears, of those around your body. You'll remember of the silence, the one that was just yours, the one you asked to leave and didn't want to go."
