Gemini

The silence you have been sitting with is doing its own work, sorting through what you actually think when no one else is listening. This particular quiet has weight to it, the kind that accumulates when you stop filling every pause with the next reasonable thing to say. You have been mistaking it for empty space, but it is more like a room where different versions of your voice can try themselves out without an audience. The gap between what you might say to different people about the same situation is where your actual opinion lives.