Tony Bush Poet Verse

What Says the Silence

What says the silence between us now 
  With dour acoustical deadness? 
Roaring waves of invisible vagrancy, 
Breaking down the white rock transparency 
  Heavy and burdened with leadenness. 

And all that is unspoken screams 
  With clinical padded-cell madness, 
Hissing clues in a deafening vacancy 
Falling flat as a pancake melody 
  With an albatross-fated sadness. 

What says the silence between us now 
  With love raped a dialogue soundless? 
Splitting hairs with a dumb antipathy, 
Lit up like a cross-wired Christmas tree 
  With its circuitry spitting and groundless. 

And whatever decays behind us breathes 
  With lungs cursed of punctured tissue 
Telling tales of an undying chemistry, 
With a quick-fire wit and repartee 
  You and I left the lonely issue. 

What says the silence between us now 
  With our feelings insidious as cancer? 
Hung upon a mutual reticency, 
What means it to you, what means it to me? 
  Even God can't conceive of an answer.

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