Silence is.

#Silence is.

There is a place outside of words,
    which is not
         Silence
    but Silence gathers there;
    words and paragraphs 
    murmuring in
         jumbled 
              confusion;
                    green, and warm.   

Trees in that place grow tall and 
     whisper           their secrets
           in guarded
                 cadres  -
           in tiny militias of
                 evergreen, and deciduous.  

They
        sparkle darkly. 

Once upon a time 
      was never a 
            time
      in that secret
                      shroud. 

There is a place beyond words
     which is not
           Silence 
     and is also not Sound
     I might wander there 
           but only when 
     I don't wish to find it.  It
           leaps upon me! 
                 unawares
     like the sleep that only comes
           from a 
                 steady
                 rhythmic
                 morphine
                 drip. 

 There is a thing outside of words
       which is not 
             Silence
                  yet Silence is its ally -
             isn't that odd? 
       sly traitor, Silence
             (once comforting) 
                   waxes turncoat
       muffles love's promises in
             white-gloved chloroform. 

Silence is
          an enthusiastic 
                          torturer. 

-LFF

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