When Silence Equals Emptiness

In 1965 Bob Dylan famously declaimed in 'Like A Rolling Stone'

'When you got nothing you go nothing to lose,
you are invisible, you got no secrets to conceal'

among many ringing phrases
he has repeated many times
in the 54 years since then.

What he did not say which would have been more telling
is that when you have nothing you will not only have no secrets
but end up with nothing to say beyond expressing the quiet hope
of receiving something to return your voice to what it was
when you had something, and something to say.