kenopsia - "the eerie atmosphere of a place usually bustling with people but now abandoned"

Knowing a place should be teaming with walking legs and flapping lips and comparison junkies, the

Emptiness of a place like this is deafening and blinding, but so alluring.

No one around just the beat of your own blood to add to the ambience.

Once the audience that has always watched you is breathless, you can appreciate the podium.

People crave community so when there is no one to look at where do our eyes wander?

So much of our lives is spent shoulder to shoulder with people so when that space is vacant,

Involuntary dread creeps its coldness up our protruding spines or belly folds or trembling knees, we're so used to being perceived without breaks.

After the drip of a fabricated and fragmented loneliness ceases we can notice the beauty of the stillness.