Richard Sanchez Poet Free verse

Silence is Golden

Silence is Golden
Silence is golden,
but gold is pure, bold, heavy and hot.
It glitters and radiates like the sun.
Silence is left when all the good-byes have been said,
and the tears have been patted dry.
Silence is left when the shoulder 
cools after that long, last embrace.   
If silence is a color, let it be rose, lavender rose,
cool, and blooming, calming, and soothing. 
Be it floating, like soft cotton candy and wisps of heavenly mist. 
At day’s end, the sun melts into the western sea.
In a last glimmer of hope, it sends out
a pillar of light, extending a luminous arm, 
a golden, futile effort to extend its stay.
But nay, for rose lavender spreads its wings,
a savannah of soft, satin sheets
in an alternating pattern of pastels. 
A panoramic display of fanning keys, 
keys on a now silent, musical board.
I would never wish you an end, 
but if there has to be one, I wish you silence. 
Rose lavender silence, 
in soft, soothing and alternating pastels.

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Moon Harp August 6, 2026 at 8:34 AM This poem is fascinating and really gives me pause to think. I like how "alternating pastels" implies that there probably will be no end. Good poem. Moon Harp

Costel Macovei August 6, 2026 at 2:10 AM I wish you all the best... truly silence is golden and speech is silver the word is the silver bullet that goes through any shield, through any armor flooding the heart with light and the mouth with silence