Saying Nothing

The bliss of silence must be learned.

As babies we treasure our sound loosed upon the world.

And then we learn words and

we share ourselves as if such sharing

is our birthright.

 

How glorious, then, to turn to silence:

no careless expression of thought

or feeling (overwrought).

Instead we recognize that we are larger

than speech.

The connections that sustain us

are clean,

when we no longer have to explain ourselves.

 

My past, your past—

to reveal these would be the work

of a lifetime (and tedious for all).

How much wiser, then,

to still our voices.

Silence.

Bliss.

 

 

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