Codebreaking

 

Silence is a language

Not easily deciphered:

A Rorschach provocation

That shows you to yourself.

 

You fill it with the things you fear,

The words that you least want to hear,

Then blame it for all the baggage

You painfully dragged here.

 

Silence is a scapegoat,

Loaded with noisy sin,

Taking the shape of your favorite nightmare –

Unless you let the silence in.

 

Then the quiet again grows quiet.

The shadow no longer screams.

The silence is only the old, good silence,

And fears are only dreams.