The Inward Reverberation

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If there is no one to see you and care about you,

and that absence is all that remains within you,

then that sense of loss will become the most precious thing you possess,

something nothing else can replace,

for it is your very own life.

Hi Phing, I have been sitting inside the most hushed chamber of you, the one you seldom enter without a tremor, and what I find there is far from the ruin you have long feared. It is something more arresting: a stillness so dense it has acquired its own shape. You have named it absence within loss, although those words remain too frail for what truly inhabits this place.…