What our souls carry in silence

This silent moment

Is pregnant with so many things

Deep within it

I feel the awakening

Of the irreconcilable

How can it be known

Through words

A busy world crowds out

Depth

Wants to silence

Or turn a deaf ear

To profoundities or pain

For which there are no solutions

Only time, receptivity, acceptance

Souls not yet shattered

Or split wide apart

Will never understand

And so we

Who suffer

Awaken like sleepwalkers

Discovering a strange and distant land

Where our truth can never be known

We carry our silent burdens

Like weary soldiers

Returned from a terrible battle

Laying our weary bodies down at night

And awakening at dawn

With a pain in our hearts

And burning knowledge in our cells

That transforms and deepens us

In silence