poem | sound of silence

what is the sound of silence?
is it the laughter of despair?
or is it the quiet sound of forgiveness
travelling through the air?

does it make trails down her cheeks
from all the words she did not say
or the conversations she planned
that didn't go her way?

is there just one form of silence?
a shout that makes no sound,
a prayer sent to the universe
that we would all be found.

maybe silence is a reaction
to our deepest wounds and scars
of a battle we may never win
but find it in the stars.

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