Silence

Silence. What is it silence? The sound that comes after a storm that has blown down twenty one trees and taken three lives. It's the sound that's left in your home after your wife of ten years takes the kids and drives off into the sunset.It's the sound made by an old oak that falls in the forest when there is no one around to hear it. It's the sound that resounds between two lovers in the night as they peer out over a peak just off lovers lane. Love is silent. Love is unspoken love is not boastful and love is not loud. It lives on in silence like just after the tide sloshes onto the beach at dawn. Silence is the sound you hear as the sun rises over the beaches of Montego Bay. Silent are the first foot steps of the toddler on the plush carpet. Silent is the woman just after her lover tells her he's leaving her. Why does silence make so much noise! I was silent after Tony left me that dreadful evening. But that silence invoked the noise of my sobs two nights later after the meaning of that dangerous silence sank in. So what is silence? Silence is painful. Silence is forgiving. Silence can pressure you. Silence is powerful. It's the sound that's worth a million words all while saying nothing.