Introduction To Silence

Silence upon other silence grows; Taller than any skyward cathedral, Wider than divisions, between two brothers. The only sincere silence is natural, Or found by a flickering candle’s flame, And the latency, of a sleeping child. After a death, some silence may roar Down zigzagging corridors, of dazed; Haunting midnight's vertiginous dreams. Numbness opens vast reservoirs of quiet And in the resultant- preternaturally stilled- Silence sometimes finds its earthly voice. I now present to you, Silence itself- Bereft of courtesies, or dignified flourishes; Bare as a babe at death- or birth.