Talking About Silence

author's note:
I've revised this poem...
For one thing, in the first version, I had two minutes of silence, but in this version, I have twenty minutes.
So perhaps, life does get better.
TALKING ABOUT SILENCE
Silence is...
the deep water cave rediscovered
after twenty thousand years:
silence is feeling at rest
even amid such mysterious
underwater darkness--
silence is a single flame
in the indefinite distance
of that darkness--
I know I can draw
that light to me
by remaining silent:
silence is the effort
that requires no effort...
yes,
I know something about silence
though I've only been
in total silence
for twenty minutes
my entire life
but in that brief time
I traveled
twenty thousand years.
© 2012, Michael R. Patton
searching for the new mythology
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