Silence As Friend

Silence As Friend by Odin Roark We noisy ones From bathinette ducky splash To deep end cannonball flood Passing from school yard horseplay To boardroom P & L tantrums The journey seems long Knowing well Noise receives attention And encouragement Just as hate remains impatient Love Like winter snowfall Clings to trees and branch Awaiting exhaustion before Absorbance reaches its time Such is the quietude of arrival Where stormy expression Finally worn of course Renders our epiphany clear Sometimes We learn too late The need to quiet the self Discover that inner peace Where noises of life Skittle to ground Mere timpani-tainted dust specks Needing only to retire their chaos Often For others The finding of such stillness Is to know the healing quietness Of inner tears coating our wounds Flooding liquid light into heretofore darkness Relegating shadows into the wings The fortunate Surround themselves With arrival’s hush While many of habitual clinging Continue to fill the void with noise Having yet to discover Silence as friend