Gemini

The silence between you and someone you used to talk to easily is not the absence of words but the presence of everything you are not saying. It holds the weight of all the conversations you have been having in your head, the ones where you explain yourself better or ask the question you did not ask when you had the chance. This kind of quiet is fuller than most talking, dense with all the versions of the exchange that could still happen. The silence knows what you know: that it will break eventually, but not until you decide which version of yourself shows up to break it.