Damn the Radio

You sit in your room, quiet and small. The silence is deafening, you reach for the radio and turn the dial to on. Suddenly you are thrown from deafening silence to obliterating emotions with every station change. You are swiftly catapulted onto a roller coaster of thoughts, fears,and dreams that you were trying to hide from in the dark silence of your room. You have no where to run; it all follows you like a dark shadow in the alley-way that you were always told not to turn down. There is no silence, for silence is louder than sound and words are tortuous to the soul. Too much is said, too little is said. It is a never ending cycle that will not stop unless the world stops. Is that a choice or an inclination? For some, for others it is just a fleeting thought for we must endure the world with our responsibilities, crosses to bear, and our never ending “have to’s.