days of silence

it is possible
and has happened
that
there are days when I don’t speak to anyone
not because I’m miffed
rather because there was no one
and I mean to use
my voice

though I might
talk in writing all the time
and
for a while now at least
there hasn’t been so much a gap in that
in this
as pauses that rarely go a day unless
there’s
surgery or some such

and the verbal silence doesn’t hut
maybe a little
and
I’ll sound croaky typically
when I talk again

and there are the hermits who go years
I guess
without saying anything yet
saying all the time in
spiritual conversation
then
those who try to blank their minds of everything
all
consciousness
per se
in order to be rid of any impeding thing in order
to know truly
everything

for
the rest is
silence
which is good for these
I think

and for me
I don’t know
but
too much
I believe
the quiet hours go
       well
       quiet
and as I am not yet finished in a life
or as a person
how much more might I learn
and own
of goodness
on my own

I need the time with you

c l couch


citing the line with “silence” from Hamlet 5, Scene 2, line 4020 of the play (Open Source Shakespeare)

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