A voice may call
A voice may call.
A voice may fail to call.
A voice may no longer be possible.
Listening cannot correct this.
Listening cannot return the dead.
Listening cannot undo silencing.
Listening cannot hear what never reached the air.
But it can refuse to treat these absences as nothing.
It can remain beside what is missing.
It can make the missing felt.
It can listen without inventing a voice to fill the silence.
September 2026.