Cancer

The quiet that has settled between you and someone else is not the absence of something but the presence of something you have not yet learned to name. You have been mistaking this stillness for distance, when it might be the sound of two people figuring out how to hold the same difficult truth without breaking it. There is a difference between the quiet that comes from having nothing left to say and the quiet that comes from finally having room to hear what has been there all along. This particular quiet is asking you to sit with it a little longer before deciding what it means.