Silence

silence followed me on the walk today
to watch the brook
moving in concentrated rhythm
snow strangling its voice

there is silence in anger
a silence you feel
deep within
it crouches sucking the air

silence of waiting
a soldier waits for dawn
with empty silence of fear

silence of love and knowing
our need not speak
eyes bond the thoughts

slience of death
lungs are empty
the brooding monster leaves
vacuum of silence stays

silence of peace
slips into the arena of life
gutting the rivers of hate

silence of time
perpertuity
silently slipping into the next day
or blackness of night

© Mary Kellogg, March 2003