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Song of the post: https://open.spotify.com/track/0GiMNDMpPq0o43oPP5Xhuc?si=ea39de35a4434a2b Substack post: https://open.substack.com/pub/rudaiba/p/her-void?r=47zbbv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true She presses the final key, holds the silence like it's something fragile. For a moment, she pretends the applause that never comes is waiting just beyond the library walls. But it never does. It’s always just the soft creak of her own breath in an empty corner of the world. She closes the piano lid like it’s a coffin. She opens her eyes. Still here. Still her. She smiles on her way out, nodding at the librarian with all the grace they expect from her. "She’s so kind." "She’s so elegant." "She’s everything I wish I was." Their voices float behind her like perfume—heavy, sickly, not meant for her to inhale. She walks and her shoes make no sound. Her laugh makes no echo. She is a performance piece. A perfect script recited on loop. Inside? Nothing. Not pain, not joy. Just static. Just… blank. A hollow statue carved by others, polished by expectations, placed gently on a pedestal no one dares question. Even she doesn’t question it anymore—not really. She plays, she smiles, she moves like a painting on display. Her words about “passion” taste like chalk. But inside? There's nothing. She studies because it’s all she was told she was good for. She plays because the silence afterward reminds her she’s still alone. She wins because otherwise… she might hear the emptiness louder. She looks at her own reflection in the polished piano lid, if she’s even real. And with a bitter smirk only she can see, she whispers— “I am… a true void.”

Song of the post: https://open.spotify.com/track/5AorWp4SMocQBoChWTCaa0?si=3c6397f403b940e7 Substack post: https://rudaiba.substack.com/p/the-void?utm_source=substack&utm_content=feed%3Arecommended%3Acopy_link It’s raining. The girl walks into the atrium that connects the library to the music hall. Her umbrella is broken, her hair clinging to her cheeks like silk threads. She is still beautiful. Too beautiful. Even soaked. And there, in the far corner —he sits, sketchbook in lap, hood pulled low like a night sky falling. For a moment, they just look. No piano. No bookshelf. No performance. No hiding. He was already there, soaked hoodie clinging to his form, eyes scanning the puddles like they might hold meaning. His sketchbook sat open beside him, a half-finished drawing of a girl at a piano — faceless, unfinished, aching. Their eyes met. For the first time, they didn’t pass each other like ghosts. Her eyes meet his — wide, searching, empty.And he sees it. Finally.The vacancy. The echo in her stare.She is not golden light. Not heavenly grace. Not perfection.Just a hollow girl made of glass, cracking. And she sees him —not the artist, not the boy with bleeding fingers.Just a shadow in fabric, expressionless, forgotten.Like he was never even placed in this story to begin with. And for a heartbeat, they saw each other clearly.Not as ideals.Not as muses.But as two people who had built entire worlds to hide the truth of who they were. She’s so bright… but so..empty.He’s so dark… but full..filled with shadows perhaps. The rain murmurs behind them.Only reflection.Only echo. they didn’t move, didn’t speak. Only looked. And in that looking, they saw not hope, not possibility ,but a quiet, devastating recognition. Each was a mirror. Each reflected what the other feared most. two strangers bound not by fate, but by a shared absence.

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Song of the post: https://open.spotify.com/track/1lb3H41lbvAN28N7yqRNL9?si=8284166b64884480 Substack post: https://open.substack.com/pub/rudaiba/p/his-void?r=47zbbv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true She comes in at exactly 4:03 PM. Always 4:03 — like clockwork, like a spell. He watches her from behind the rows of old books, hidden so deeply into the shelves that even light doesn’t bother looking for him. His fingers are smudged with graphite, his nails dark with the dust of dreams too long buried. She passes, and the air bends. The girl moves like music. Not the kind that screams or begs — the quiet kind. The type that trickles into your soul without asking, like sunlight slipping beneath your door at dawn. Every motion of hers is precise but effortless. She sits at the piano in the east corner, beneath the fractured skylight where the late afternoon sun filters through and crowns her in fading gold. And then she begins to play. He stops breathing. Her music is not loud. It's not bold. It’s soft and aching and lonely in the way only something deeply human can be. Her fingers dance across the keys with the grace of someone who was born to make beauty …or at least told she was. He sketches. His pencil moves in sync with her melody. Copying her, chasing her. Trying to grasp in charcoal what she played so gracefully. He draws. Obsessively. Everything he's not everything he's told to be, everything he ran away from, it's her. He's drawing what he can't ever be. Years of rejection creeping on to him. His art? Pointless, they said. Just lines. Just shadows. Just noise. The world never wanted his kind of silence — the kind that bleeds through paper and whispers, “I saw you.” Now, he can draw only the voids. The empty chairs. The cracked windows. The girl at the piano who doesn’t look up.