The Sounds of Silence
I’m in love with the silence.
The thick layers appear
They display as opaque
But they are easily pierced
A small adjustment
Metal appliances click
The wood cringes
The cloth swishes
But still it envelops
All spaces it spreads to
Filling up the room
Also In its company
Breath moves along
The sleeping human
The snoring dog
It waves with silence
It is the drumbeat
It differentiates life
From the quiet of death
It rises and falls
Not far past the body
But silence goes further
Beyond the arm
Beyond the lung
It scatters like sand
It saturates like water
Dammed by sound
Displaced as darkness
When light turns on.
The noisemakers stir
The sun lights the ground
Silence retreats now
I wave it off resistant
But knowing it will return
Copyright © Gail Grado | Year Posted 2018
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