Dialogue with the Unknown

Written by a Miguel Santiago

In the stage-set stillness, an abrupt aria shatters the silence, aloof and demanding – the phone rings. An enigma swathed in polyphonic proclamation, a summons more cryptic than cautionary, each echo a query whispered in the hush of expectation – when the phone rings, the unknown answers.

It is an intimate theatre of suspense, where the mundane meanders, tangled in the threads of the inexplicable. Each ring, a pulse circling the vortex of the unsaid, each silence, a chasm swallowing the lair of the known, crafting a drama of anticipation, a pantomime of parlance.

The shrill call, a melody of mysteries, weaves riddles in decibels of sound and silence. A drama unfurling from the humble handset, narratives birthed between the transceiver and the ear, as the auricular seashell catches the waves of distant disclosures.

Stitched onto the skin of silence, the dialogue with the unknown engenders curiosity and disturbances in the tranquillity of ignorance. The unfamiliar, though aloof, has an uncanny lure, an attraction so potent each ring compels a hand extended to the receiver – a dance of truth and deception.

Invoking an enigmatic conversation, the exchange threads everyday life and confounding enigma into a tapestry, crossing planes of reality and improbability. Words, the playwrights of understanding, now strain to transcribe the complex monologue of confusion.