I have started speaking less,
I haven’t become wise
but I found out
noise can be expensive,
or sometimes
just cacophony.

I watch people rush
to explain,
to defend,
to win
pointless arguments;
calling it smartness,
to shield their thirst
for having the last word
and emerging victorious,
but I see leakage, and
loss of leverage.

Calculated silence
empowers
what I still have in myself.