Silence is the Killer

I've lost my voice. 
I've forged a path away from examining my inner thoughts to explore the more superficial way of life I've fought to ignore.
By choosing to wander down this well-paved road, I learned to quiet the deep thoughts that once perplexed and suffocated me.
However, the silence kills me now. 
The reality of it all is that I have quieted the very thing that once kept me so alive.