Silence

by Janet Waldo

Silence is the soil
which buries the
deep words inside me.
Silence saves me.
Should those words shoot a stalk
up through the silence,
what firework of a blossom
might explode!
Hurting my ears,
my soul,
my life.

The Author

Janet Waldo lives by the sea in San Diego, where she mothers, writes, works and tries to figure out what her role is in making the world a better place.