showdown

Does it unnerve you
that I know how to sit with your silence;
that when your world is void of noise,
I can still hear?

Does it unsettle you
that I see right through the walls;
that where others have walked away,
I stand still?

Have you come unhinged yet?
Baffled?
Staring back in wonder?
Don’t hold your breath.

I’ll last much longer than you.

– arkaydee