Silence Resounding Into Nothing.

Silence resounding in nothing.

They say silence is golden

If so than I am 

King Midas this week,

she's not talking, 

but her eyes say

what her voice will not speak,

it's been going on six days

her cold shouldered attack 

offers me her bare back 

a wo-manequin whose lips

form a tightly sealed crack

but I am the dummy

The silence is deafening,

I can hear chinese noodles

 being crunched in BeJing

guess I'm just 

not worth mentioning

I can hear my heart pounding,

trying to get out...break loose

of the walls of sheer dumbness 

that suffocate like a moose.


Perhaps it's a taste

of what my coffin will hold,

as I sit here surrounded 

by so much tarnished gold,

everything that I touch 

seems to turn into silence.

as the one I love most

offers only defiance.


Perhaps I should share 

the great wealth of it all 

without sound, 

let the silence 

extend beyond my walls

to the guns of war

let it quell every round, 

in the Ukraine,  Afghanistan 

and Jerusalem...

where hatred abounds.

To the streets of the barrio 

and the ghettos as well,

A new King, me bringing peace 

to such cauldrons of hell 

as the world leaps with joy

at what my silence has felled. 

Oh, if God would allow 

just one day to erase

the screams and the wails,

of the vast human race

with a power to reach out,

and touch the whole world 

leaving cries of war stilled

letting peace be instilled.

But perhaps in the sharing 

Of such wealth I'd be sad.. 

abandoning the very things

that make my heart glad, 

for even words printed

make sounds in one's head

all of my work would vanish

leaving black screens instead,

and my thoughts all deleted

even this poem unread,

a King Midas nightmare,

for which none would give thanks

all the words struck with silence, 

leaving nothing but blanks. 

So I'll suffer in silence,

and let God be the judge...

till my love comes round,

with a smile and a nudge,

and the world will go on,

dealing hatred and strife,

but I'm done with King Midas

for the rest of my life.