Interrupt the echo

Photo by Mehmet Kürşat Değer on Unsplash

Words, phrases
Pain.
Reheard, remembered, reiterated.
Old fears
dread
become real with every frenetic echo.
Rationality lost in the cacophony
of spiraling almost truths.

A different voice
calm and steady
From outside this closed chamber
rethink, reconsider, reevaluate,
reach out.
Stability, strength, solidarity.
On the other side of a phone call
Or across a dinner table