A Poem to Silence
Silence
a friend…
maybe our only friend…
we fill the silence
and find the stillness in the silence
our hand holds a lamp
and the center of the lamp
is a sun
the light is consuming
it’s fluid and iridescent
it lights up everything
the light is not our friend
it is a force beyond us
the light shows
a universe
fluid and alive
it shows us a snake,
long and wriggling
slippery, unknowable
we are left with words
and words
are little things
paltry, misleading
words are betrayers
they betray us at every breath
we speak the moment
we speak the world
we speak the lie
or grasp the silence with both hands
and pray without words