Silence

By: Kelly O’Neill

Over the quivering surface of the stream,

The moon issued a silent scream.

The fog of war flowed silently adrift,

The pain of the night was silent and swift.

A moth fluttered in the silent breeze,

Surrounded by the scent of death and disease.

And yet it seemed it hadn’t a care,

About the senseless slaughter of others

who did not quite as well fare.

But as dawn began to appear,

Away went the pain, the despair, the fear.

The silence of a new day,

Seemed to deafen what had come to stay.

Even when there is the darkness of the cloud,

There is still light all around.