Josie says
What happens when you lose your voice.
You crawl somewhere far inside yourself.
You get lost in caverns of forgotten time.
You stumble onto memories better left untouched.
You imagine that you’ve said what you’ve meant even though you never did.
You remember that even when you had your tongue, you didn’t say what you meant to say.
A lot of times you said the opposite.
And that didn’t help anyone.
But you would have said.
I love you.
I need you.
I think of you and when I think of you instead of you there’s a horrible hole in me. A hole like a forest where nothing is as it seems and nobody knows who I am and its so dark and topsy turvy that I got lost before I even started and I need your light to lead me out again.