Cancer

The quiet between you and someone who matters carries more weight than most conversations you have had this month. This kind of stillness has shape and intention behind it, like a room that has been carefully arranged for a guest who has not yet arrived. You both know what lives in the space where words would go, and you both know that naming it would change its nature entirely. The silence does its own work, holding what needs holding without asking either of you to decide whether that is enough.