*loolaville _poetry    



The Silence That Follows

The silence that follows
the husband
closing the eyes of his bride,
the silence that follows
the single gunshot
to a young boy's temple,
the silence that follows
the pinch of a surgeon's
steel tool inside the fearful woman;
It is the silence
utterly open to stillness
that gives birth to the sorrow
our bodies have no choice
but to contain.
 


   
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