Silence and Me
by Suzanne Rogers
Silence, my companion, walks with me.
Together we watch spring ferns unfold
And moss and the green bloom of apple trees
And smell last autumn's leaves in the spring earth.
We step like Indians through the piney place
No twigs are broken, nothing is disturbed.
The mossy footpath rolls beneath our feet
And oak leaves brush against our face.
Our hearts are full of the expanse of sky
That sends a wind song to invite a dance.
The tumult of the world rejects us both
But we can hear the music in the grass.
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