A love in verse

Silence

1996-09-27
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It’s more quiet than I’ve ever known

No cat stirs, wasp or fly. 

At least for a while:- not even the phone!

No singing girl, TV, just I

(The pencil’s rasp becomes a roar)

Silence goes down to my core

And in this peace, I feel, full-blown

The sweet joy of these years gone by

To love you’s what I was made for

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