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What Doesn’t Echo​

Some homes hide the loudest kind of quiet.

Above someone.
Below someone.
Old walls. Thin ceilings.
Nothing to soak in the sound.

No one heard a fight.
No one heard love.
Just two shapes
moving around each other—
like tenants.
Like placeholders.

You can’t fake warmth
in a space that small.
The silence always leaks.

They were never caught.
But they were never seen.

© 2025 Alexa Daskalakis

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