silence

You gave me the gift
Of silence-
Expecting nothing.

Because all the words
You draw from me
Are not enough-
Endless attempts
To communicate,
But you loved me
In the quiet.

And I listened
To the music
In the distance
Without striving
To be heard,
The pressure
To rhyme my words.

You let me be still,
Wrapped in the embrace
Of a love without noise.

This lovely peace
In not having to do
But just be.
This world
Is so much more
Than the things
We can speak.

Tucked away
In the quiet corners
Of my heart-
You took me there,
To a place
Where I'm content.
It's a poem
I don't know
How to say yet.