The Peculiar Silence
The peculiar silence 
of the aged.
The entirety of the mountain 
before the dawn.
Time, frozen and meditating
Over hard earned memories
Adrift and unabsorbing
Gazes, dry 
the dampness inward
The fragile steps, one 
against the other, watch 
the earth moving underneath
and the wanton world 
rustling, beside
The inquisitiveness, the laughter 
and the slices of sky, move
from an armchair to bed 
and to the 
rainless windows 
The tragedy of being alive
with a child within
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