Where is Silence?

Where is Silence?

I was born in the city, where silence is rarely found.

I look for her diligently,

where she is, quiet is always somewhere around.

In the city where the hustle and bustle is loud and clear,

but silence is nowhere...near

I look, high and search low, but I can't seem to find silence!

In my search, I trip over, brokenness, pain, and violence.

Run to the hallowed halls of the library,

where silence is so often on display and noise is tip-toeing around,

afraid to come out and play, but on this day, 

I hear more ruckus than silence and quiet ways.

So now I'm left with noise and not the silence I frantically seek.

Where is silence? Where is Quiet?

In the city, the urban jungle

Why can't I find silence?

I need her before I lose my sanity. 

In the concrete streets of the city

In the city where horns honk and drivers squawk at passersby.

Where wheels screech and common folk' speak loud on public streets.

Where busses sigh and cars thump as they roll by.

On those days where the sun is dim and the fog is all around.

You would think that silence would be among the smoke.

But she's not; I'm starting to lose hope.

I may never find silence in the city.

She appeared from among the morning dew when the day was young 

and the skies were covered in midnight blue.

If stars could speak, you would hear them say, 

"Silence, she is wrapped in each twinkle we relay."

I finally found her, my long lost love; I found silence in the city.

She beckons unto me from the heavens high above.

She descends to my position in the city, slowly, often with no one ever aware

When I listened and stood perfectly still, I heard quite speak

Quiet stated, unapologetic, I am glad you waited

"I'm here, I'm here."

Silence……….. how peaceful.

Silence...is golden. Just like that, noise rushed in and the still air

was filled once again, with the sounds of the city

Silence, for a brief moment, showed her face,

then almost instantaneously

She hid.... in the sunrise and laid under the covers of daybreak.

Silence in the city is gone.....