This Is What It Sounds Like To Be Deaf

Submitted by: Lynn K.

Light a single candle
Watch
How the tapered flame dances
Now don’t breathe
Don’t whisper
Watch
How the dance slows
And the flame becomes perfectly still
Then
Only in that perfect stillness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf

Drop a single pebble into a pond
Watch
How the ripples spread outward
Now don’t move
Don’t look away
Watch
How the ripples gradually disperse
Until the watery surface becomes perfectly quiet
Then
Only in that perfect quietness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf

Follow the flight of an eagle
Watch
How its mighty wings conquer the heights
Now don’t look away
Don’t blink
Watch
How she floats in the air perfectly motionless
Then
Only in that perfect motionlessness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf

Enter a windowless room
Watch
As all the lights and LEDs are turned off
Now don’t panic
Don’t close your eyes
Watch
How the room becomes perfectly dark
Then
Only in that perfect darkness
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf

Consider those visuals
See
How silence envelopes me
Now do you understand
Do you comprehend
Hear
The stillness…quietness..motionlessness…darkness..
Then
Only in that silence
Will you know
This is what it sounds like
To be deaf

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