Worst part is, we can never hear nothingness. Our own bodies
  creak and make noises. Even among deaf people, they subvocalize,
  even though they've never heard a sound with their ears.

  Just how it is.

  Nothingness? It's a concept related to a black all the shades
  blacker than the blackest black we think we could ever imagine
  with a silence more silent than the most quiet we've never
  heard. In short, it's a poetic word, although cognitively
  analogized to things we can comprehend, like blackness and
  silence.