Soul-Filling Silence

Let's go find a lake

Somewhere they won't find us,

Somewhere the noise

Inside my head 

Quiets or goes away.

Let's just sit here for awhile

As I remember

What it is to...be,

And please remind me

Who I am without the moving --

The constant, restless moving

And the doing.

It's something

I always seem to forget.

Maybe if you remember,

Some of the voices in my head

Will learn to just be quiet.

I'll know what stillness is

Apart from this running away

Into the hills to finally breathe.

Can we be quiet by these waters

And fill our lungs with air,

Sitting shoulder to shoulder

In this place, this connection,

Free from despair?

I'll look at you and smile.

You'll just smile back.

We won't need words here

In this soul-filling silence

Because I know I'm safe with you.

I am always safe with you,

And you'll remind me

I'll be alright. 


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I tried entering a poetry contest. I didn't place, but it's alright because if my poetry can somehow slip into the cracks in my heart and maybe resound in one or two other people's lives, then I'm content. Where are your happy places? Where do you go to escape your brain and life?