Silence 2

I hurl the chevron beads

Of life into the fire.

They light up

They crackle quiet

They melt

The cut glass of my heart.

The quartz in my voice,

The crystal liquid in my veins.

The smoke in my head

Curls and curls

Upwards

Through the corals of memory.

Through purple mists.

Through stained glass

light pouring in

from the shadows

of the soul.

The silence of the sunset.

The silence of the coral reef.

The silence of the sleeping forest.

Of the thunderclap

before it splinters

the horizon.

The silence in my heart.

The silence of your breath.

The slow waltz of the soul.

The silence of a promise

Never made before.

Wisps of whispers

In the silence of the night.

The invisible presence

Of your silence.

The quiet comfort of your silence.

The fullness of your silence.

The depth of your silence

Like the secret minefields of the earth

Laid bare to cosmic eyes

Away from the turbulence of surfaces.

The silence of me.

The silence of you.

The silence of the chevron beads

Of life hurled into the fire.