Missing Being Seen

I’m more of an eyes man than an ears man.
It’s not the silence that gets to me.
Some silences are connection.
It’s the feeling of not being seen anymore that can ache.
Is that when it lands for you, too—the missing, the quiet lack of being seen?

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