Silence

Poem #2

The stillness and the quiet

The stillness and the quiet

Silence reveals itself,

its dense invisible body,

its many limbs,

only to those who understand

that it cannot be measured in time.

Silence is the pause between the beats

And it lasts forever

If you go on waiting for the beat

It will put its unseen hands over your eyes and ears

It will slide its fingers to the back of your tongue

If you go on waiting for the beat,

All you will see and hear

And taste

Is silence

It will climb on your back

It will crawl into your belly

The only way to see or hear anything else

Is to accept the companionship of silence

Let it sit with you

In friendship do we become

In the tiniest of ways

Made of the same stuff

As our friends

So make friends with silence

And find that your toes and your finger tips are silent too

That your heart beats silently

And nobody can hear your breathing

The beat will come

It always does

But now

Only one thing

We are with silence