The Quiet Witness

It Didn’t Get Louder

They said it would get louder when it happened.

That there would be some signal.

Some shift.

There wasn’t.

The room stayed intact.

The air unchanged.

Nothing acknowledged you.

Success doesn’t announce itself.

It doesn’t arrive with witnesses.

It simply occupies the space beside you.

I’ve seen people reach what they chased for years

and immediately look past it.

As if arriving late to something already finished.

There is no relief in that moment.

Only confirmation.

You realize the pursuit mattered more than the result.

You realize how much noise was manufactured to avoid standing still.

Nothing ends.

Nothing opens.

There is no ceremony for becoming aware.

You remain who you were—

only less distracted now.

Most people mistake silence for emptiness.

They’re wrong.

Silence is what remains when nothing needs to prove itself.

That is the moment most people miss

Its Clearly Scene

— The Quiet Witness