Please let me be...

I want to become increasingly silent,

especially on the outside,

I don’t want to be dragged

into the clamour of noises around me.

I want to remain untouched

by all the brouhaha around me, about me.

I want to remain stable, balanced,

in spite of everything.

I want to watch, I want to listen.

I want to remain silent.

I want to be ‘allowed’ to remain silent.

I don’t want to worry

about how people might judge me

for wanting to be left alone.

I want to creep inside me,

deep within the

innermost recesses of the mind .

And I want to remain there.